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Only three weeks distant from the bitter air battles over Java, Air Corps Lieutenant Trenkle was one of four Air Officers to impress on 150 students in Emerson D last night the urgent need for a steady supply of officer material, especially for flying duty...
...next week. . . . Mike Levin, who started this column three scaut years ago, is busy as ever around New York, what with a new feature in "Orchestra World" and a labor of love helping Red Norvo under way with his new band. . . . Harry James and his band did not impress me too favorably at the Metropolitan last week. Helen Forrest sang nicely, without fancy gestures, either, but the band itself didn't ride on its various killer-dillers. There were plenty of brassy blasts, of course, but they failed to fascinate...
British Military Intelligence in Singapore admitted, both to Brown and to a representative of the Ministry of Information, that the "pessimistic" tone of his broadcasts had been justified by the facts; also that the broadcasts had served to impress the U.S. with Singapore's predicament. Then why keep...
Nobody planned Saburo Kurusu's trip to impress him. But there is now no way to cross the U.S.-except on foot through the woods, or on a dark night above the clouds-and not see signs of U.S. arms, signs of U.S. strength. Kurusu flew southward over United's crow line, over California's infinitely fertile farmlands, over forests of oil derricks, in fields which alone produce many times as much oil as Japan consumes. Around them lay the exotic square miles of California, in itself almost twice as big as the mainland of Japan...
...placed, aided as he is by the long experience and contacts of Miss Baldwin and Mrs. Barnes. To them falls the added task of seeing that the students get to the interviews on time, bolstered with a bit of philosophical and psychological etiquette on how to greet and impress possible bosses. If they don't get the job, they try again...