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...medical men. The Army's urgent need of M.D.'s in World War I compressed the medical curriculum in many cases into three years, and may do so again. But in spite of its obvious disadvantages, such a compression is never completely unwelcome in a ten year grind...
More than 150,000 race fans turned out last week to celebrate Memorial Day in Indianapolis, i.e., the Indianapolis Auto Race, a 500-mile grind over a two-and-a-half-mile, brick-&-asphalt oval. Just before the start, the crowd listened to a radio message from the speedway's president, onetime Driver Eddie Rickenbacker, still in hospital in Atlanta from the plane crack-up that killed eight of his fellow passengers last February. "I hope and wish," said Captain Rickenbacker, "that this great outdoor laboratory will be permitted to carry on to help national defense...
Major Barbara (Pascal-United Artists). George Bernard Shaw, 84 and the world's No. 1 living dramatist, did everything but grind the camera in this second authorized full-length screen version of one of his plays. He wrote its scenario and dialogue, brought the 36-year-old drama up to date with some 30 new scenes, supervised its direction, dominated its production. The result is a cinema treat...
...unfortunately Williams spends very little time on what he knows best; he has axes to grind and grudges to settled, and he can't seem to forget them for much more than a page at a time. He tells his version of air power's growth with a animus of a persecuted fanatic who is at long last able to shout "I told you so!" For Williams was one of that group of airmen who foresaw the coming role of air power many year ago, and insisted on an intensive program of offensive and defensive preparation. In German, Italy...
Provided the country is still at peace on June 14, the New London races will come off as usual. Such is the heartening news coming out of New Haven which effectively stifles the myriad rumors about the Government forbidding, because of defense secrets, the annual four-miles grind on the Thames this year...