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...picture is perhaps farthest from conviction in its rather overwritten love scenes, though these are played with unusual 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...
...Lieut. Lawson and his crew, the raid ends in wreckage and agony on the China coast. Guerrillas help the broken men inland. Chinese doctors do all they can with heartbreakingly scanty medical supplies. Gangrene develops in Ted Lawson's leg; by the time an American doctor reaches him, there is nothing to do but take it off. In a shot which M.G.M. had the creditable courage to leave in the picture, despite preview complaints, two nurses carry the grim weight of the leg away down a corridor...
...length the survivors are assembled safely, and flown back to the States. In Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, Lawson at last sees his wife again. As she comes through the door he stands up from his wheelchair-forgetful of his lost leg-and falls, gruesomely hard, in the most shocking and piteous moment any American war film has yet dared to exhibit...
...Saturday in Gotham: Dropped over to Commodore Music Shop to protest the issuing of "Mop Mop" and picked up some new dises ... Best of these were "Clarinet Marmalade" with Bill Davison, Ed Hall, and Brunies; "Squeeze Me" by Yank Lawson, Miff Mole, and Cless; and the same tune recorded by Cliff Jackson, and Pee Wee ... For lovers of boogie there is a new "Streamlino Train" by Cripple Clarence Lofton on Session label ... Next to Condon's Town Hall broadcast featuring excellent Butterfield, Kaminsky, Mole, and Muggsy along with poor Krupa and indifferent Haggart ... Saw Haggart in the bar next door...
University of Pennsylvania's Track Coach Lawson Robertson took swift advantage of this news. Summoning reporters and photographers, he demonstrated a Danish gadget guaranteed to be proof against both nervous sprinters and unskillful starting officials. In front of each runner's marks lie two metal plates connected by wire to the starting gun. Unless every runner has his fingers on his plates the gun cannot be fired...