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Unlike the discharged marine in Hail the Conquering Hero, who posed as a hero to save his mother disappointment, Warrant Officer Sugino had behaved courageously enough. But he had fallen down on the job of dying. Like Hobson at Santiago, he ran a block ship into the harbor's mouth and sank it. Then a Chinese boat rescued...
...SUMMER LONG - Wilder Hobson -Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
Readers who like their novels to have plot and purpose will not find much of either in All Summer Long, which is essentially a roving comedy of manners. FORTUNE Editor Wilder Hobson, onetime chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine and an authority on jazz (American Jazz Music), is mainly interested in prodding his people into disjointed remarks on music, clothes, Marx, alcohol, horses and the female figure. His deliberately meandering story is often witty, and stylishly tailored to a cast of characters who are unable to grasp anything more complicated than a highball...
...offers a well-balanced program this weekend: two grade B pictures instead of the usual one piperoo, one stinkcroo. "Tartu," with gigolo Robert Donat and topid Valerie Hobson, is about a British spy doing impossible things in the heart of Nazi-held Czechoslovakia. That sort of thing just doesn't go over without some semblance of reality- and possibility; this was just too fantastic...
Tartu (Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson; TIME, Sept...