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This was Saipan, as recorded by Lieut. Loyal ("Larry") B. Hays and Technical Sergeant Keene Hepburn of the U.S. Marines. After 13 days there, they were back in the U.S. last week, editing 15 to 20 hours of the best portable wire and disc recordings of battle action made during World War II. They put home-fronters (CBS, We, the People) just about as close to the battle as they could get without participating...
...Hays-Hepburn recordings are notable for: 1) their extreme clarity; 2)their naturalness, which is the result of letting battle sounds speak pretty much for themselves. Says Lieut. Hays: "I don't believe that war is any place for histrionics. I don't believe in yelling 'here they're coming down the stretch...
...Gonna Die." Hays & Hepburn began their recording aboard ship with the Amphibious Corps on the way to Saipan, setting the battle scene by casual conversations with privates and admirals, by recording 250 men singing Abide With Me (and obviously meaning it) in the ship's sweaty hold, led by a sweating chaplain. The recorders were near the beachhead in a landing craft as the first wave of Marines went in, Hays quietly telling what he saw, Hepburn manipulating the controls and making one anxious comment for all to hear: "If that's not recording, I'm gonna...
Katherine Hepburn, long nettled by Hollywood's unimpassioned response to her idea of filming Eugene O'Neill's lengthy, incestuous Mourning Becomes Electra, lamented the fact of movie censorship. Los Angeles Times Drama Editor Edwin Schallert reported that "substantially this is what [she] told me": "Really deep consideration of the issue of sex . . . has no chance to be translated onto the screen under the present system of censorship. Yet at the same time, in musicals and other lighter entertainment, you find sex exploited in an intriguing, inveigling, 'peeking' sort of way that is much more...
...eight years Ontario's Premier had been Mackenzie King's flamboyant enemy, Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn. Last October Mitch resigned, named pompous Gordon Conant (known to Toronto newsmen as "God") to succeed him. Conant thought until last week that he would be the new Premier. When Liberals, including Hepburn, ignored him at the Party convention and deserted him, Conant went off to a hospital to rest. Mitch himself stayed in political retirement on his onion farm...