Word: kids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enthusiastic TD men, all this is kid stuff. Except for some new, secret destroyers which the General is trying out for the Army, it is all too slow. Their dream is a 65-m.p.h. gun with practically no heavy protection. If it is fast enough to outrun the tanks, they argue, it will not need the armor anyway. Conversely, slowing a destroyer down with the weight of armor only makes armor necessary. As one of the General's men says: "The idea is if Joe Louis is sitting in the corner with his back turned, you hit him behind...
...Hara and Randolph Scott have no trouble giving adequate performances. But any resemblance between the story here and a good plot, or between this film and an honest-to-goodness he-man thriller is very well camouflaged. Instead of the Marines making a man out of the Culver kid, John Payne, he turns around and makes mincemeat out of them, and it takes Pearl Harbor at the end of the picture to interest him in the glories of the life of a Marine. What should have been the thriller of the year develops into a rehash of Frank Merriwell, tame...
...next. Much depends on whether the generals can inspire new confidence among the men. The task falls mainly to strong, silent General Auchinleck who, though lacking the warm personality of Wavell, has worked wonders in the last year, getting rid of brass hats and teaching officers to take their kid gloves off. Only a few people think that Egypt is as good as lost; many more are pinning their faith on the Tommies' renowned ability to fight best with their backs to the wall. The official view is that "the situation is serious but not grave...
Handsome Patty, a product of Los Angeles public courts and protégé of Movie Stars Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, is the National Junior champion. Equally handsome Bob Falkenburg, kid brother of much-photogled Jinx, and a boy friend of Shirley Temple, is the only tennist ever to win both the National Boys' Singles and Doubles championship two years...
Poker. In San Francisco, Mrs. Claire Curtin won an annulment after describing her married life. She said that in 1939 her husband had taken time out from a session of poker to marry her, then announced: "Okay, kid, I'm going back to the card game." She concluded: "I haven't seen him since...