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Aboard the carrier two carpenter's mates and a petty officer were trapped in a compartment five decks below. There was water all around them, a seaman said, and it was hopeless to try to get them out. The telephones were still working. Somebody called down: "Do you know what kinda fix you're in?" "Sure," they called back: "We know you can't get us out, but we got a helluva good acey-deucey game goin' down here right...
This strange story and its performance (it is billed as "the American Mrs. Miniver") fit each other like gloves without hands in them. Fay Bainter succeeds against hopeless odds in making her absurd part plausible. So does Miles Mander, as the neurasthenic doctor. There are moments of high farce when the air-warden butler gets mixed up with Spring Byington (in her bedroom) during a blackout, and when the Widow Bainter wanders in on a kind of middle-aged seraglio scene with first-aiders all wound up in one another's bandages. Otherwise, high seriousness is the note...
...putting them into the nearest bomb crater"; the lone repairman at Cebu who fixed their boat and calmly stayed behind to fight the Japs alone. And they think of some 60 men who were once members of their squadron-how their numbers were whittled down by days of incessant, hopeless action...
There are some traditions that no one is going to miss. Coasting through college on three C's and a D is out for the duration. But the serious student who wants to get a liberal education in the humane tradition is on an almost hopeless quest. In the sciences he is perhaps worst off: the physics department has been converted into a technical school for the Signal Corps, and budding Einsteins are nipped before they can begin to bloom. That this step was necessary makes it no less unhappy. In the social sciences, specific war service programs are taking...
Stacked up against the array of luminaries in blue and gold, the Crimson becomes a prohibitive short-ender. But the Harlowmen have played the role of the "hopeless underdog" many times before this, and more than once have hammered out an upset that left the experts hanging on the ropes