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Jack Unjaded. In Australia, before John Curtin became Prime Minister last year, his people used to call him "Jaded Jack." Behind his gold spectacles and his mild, professorial mug he was meek enough. His best friends said that for all his wondrous vocabulary, his skill at political infighting, his long...
The third important bogey is partly dispelled by the pamphlet described above; it is the desperate error of treading on clouds; of planning with a dreamer's misty brain for the sheer delight of planning. In peeling off the layers of what-has-been-done-before they must not forget...
All this is seen through the eyes of Pulham, which puts him in every scene and makes the picture slow, talky, occasionally repetitious. But Robert Young's version of the inhibited, frustrated, baffled Boston gentleman who didn't have guts or brains enough to get out of his...
Spreading last week in radio circles was the fame of James Coleman Hanrahan, suave but peppery manager of Memphis' station WMPS. Mr. Hanrahan had had enough guts to apologize to his listeners for two commercial plugs heard over his station in the first week of the war. One came...
The battle's great lesson besides Japanese skill and guts, was the importance of the aerial torpedo in fleet actions. Cecil Brown broadcast: "It's apparent that the best guns and crews would be unable to stem a torpedo-bombing attack if the attackers are sufficiently determined"-and...