Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Called before the House Military Affairs Committee three years ago, the tart-tongued General was discreet enough to give no testimony until the Committee assured him that it would "take the blame for anything that might happen." Then he cut loose: "The Army has become so complicated that an archangel right out of Heaven could not operate it. ... The War Department has always collapsed at the outbreak of every war and the present organization will collapse at the outbreak of the next war because it is too topheavy, contains too many conflicting agencies, has too much divided responsibility...
...Eventually the object may be thrown into a longer orbit, with a long period, or even ejected from the planetary system. The chance that it will actually collide with one of the planets is, of course, very remote, although eventually it might happen...
...speed. Funniest scenes: Lloyd learning to box from MacFarland's tough sparring partner (Lionel Stander); teaching the dowager patron of a benefit bout how to duck a punch; knocking out Champion MacFarland, whose seconds have accidentally given him a sleeping potion just before the fight. It Had to Happen (Twentieth Century-Fox) is about a group of glossy New Yorkers who exist only in the imaginations of writers like Rupert Hughes, from whose story it was adapted. There is the behind-the-scenes politician (George Raft) whose heart is as big as his racing stable, the patrician young lady...
...exactly the same way, it is not necessarily plagiarism, collusion or telepathy. Some ideas are in the air, and the air is free to all. Storm Jameson's In the Second Year will be called the English version of Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here, because Author Lewis' book appeared in the U. S. first. But both were written at about the same time, and most discerning readers will consider Storm Jameson's by far the better...
Author Jameson has shrewdly taken more than one leaf from recent history. To skeptical readers who might say, "It can't happen anywhere," she has only to point to Germany. But Frank Hillier and Sacker are not so much copies of Adolf Hitler and Ernst Roehm as translations of them into recognizable English types. Author Jameson has made an ominously plausible case. A Cassandra who hates what she foresees, she prophesies so graphically that, unlike Cassandra, she may be listened...