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Since virtually all the hair-raisers have been U.S. shows (The Green Hornet, The Shadow, et al.), the di-shivering will eventually be done in U.S. recording studios...
...heart and simplicity by Van Johnson (as Lieut. Ted Lawson) and a talented, sensitive newcomer, Celia Thaxter (as Mrs. Lawson). It is best in its flying scenes-above all in an ambitious sequence which purports to take a low-flying bomber all the way from the deck of the Hornet to the roofs of Tokyo...
Down with B.I.S. The Norwegians tried to open a hornet's nest with a sudden proposal that the Bank for International Settlements at Basle be liquidated and a commission appointed to investigate its policies during the war-a direct hint that B.I.S. deals have been pro-Nazi. The Dutch and several other European nations opposed this suggestion on grounds that B.I.S. was the first international financial institution that ever worked, and that the assets of the Bank belong to Europe's central banks, which alone have a right to liquidate...
...first reaction was elation. The papers said that the Anglo-Saxons had stirred up a hornet's nest. Their spearhead would be broken and the Wehrmacht would be free at last to teach the Russians the futility of further efforts to advance. The fond dream of a negotiated peace began to come alive. Quislings sent brave greetings to the Fiihrer-duly published- and the people recalled the devastating powers of mysterious secret weapons...
This week naval airmen heard a rumor about Marc Mitscher that had them quietly simmering. Wizened, solemn little Admiral Mitscher, who has been a naval airman since 1916, who commanded the carrier Hornet, "Shangrila" of the Tokyo raid, who commanded the carrier task forces which spectacularly raided Truk, Guam, Palau, is due-said the rumor-to be yanked out of the Pacific...