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...Transport Command-and boss of the Hump lifeline into China-last week cheerfully took on more trouble. With the store creases still fresh in his mufti, tall, tough Brigadier General Thomas Hardin went to work as executive vice president of TACA Airways' 13,000 miles of loosely knit air routes south of the border. His first move was to hire four of his top-ranking buddies in A.T.C. to help him run TACA...
General's Drumfire. The Secretary's reasoning was closely knit, but it was General of the Army George Catlett Marshall who laid down the most effective drumfire. Probably more than any other citizen, George Marshall is trusted by Congress. The members of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, who had stood as a mark of respect to the neatly turned-out, pink-faced Chief of Staff when he entered the room, were clearly impressed as the old soldier sent over his shots...
Most Italians and Allied observers feared, with good cause, that the spark that would set off an explosion would come from the Communists. The Communists were not numerically strong in Catholic Italy. But the Red organization was well-knit. It had demonstrated before, at Andria, that it knew how to carry out an armed coup...
While it gets off to a slow start, "You Touched me" succeeds very well as comedy, mostly because of Edmund Gwenn, but where "The Glass Menagerie" had a well-knit cast, Gwenn pulls the cast of "You Touched Me" a little off-balance. And unlike "The Glass Menagerie," the more topical new prodigy of Tennessee Williams types its characters...
...begins in North Africa and ends with the march on Rome. Along that long, bloody road Ernie Pyle is omnipresent, but so self-effacingly (at Pyle's insistence) that he never emerges as much more than "the little guy" in the background. The story is well knit together from incidents in Pyle's best-selling books...