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General Somervell wrote flatly last week in Mill & Factory, trade paper for production men: "By far the greater part of the failure (in May) was due to the psychological letdown-the overconfidence that has swept the country with favorable news from the battlefront." Some Army men suggested that industry was getting so confident that the war had been won that it was giving its energy to preparations for postwar production...
Said Bob Patterson: "This means that troops in training must be deprived of critical equipment. ... If this situation continues even our overseas troops will suffer. ... I ... attribute the letdown . . . to overconfidence...
...margins, Harvard's hockey team failed to enjoy its most propitious weekend in years in the three days just passed. The Crimson skaters ended Dartmouth's 32-game winning streak by holding the Indians to a 4 to 4 tio at the Arena Saturday night, and they saffered no letdown yesterday morning in plastering Army's Cadets 8 to 4 at the Skating Club...
...people had had the satisfaction of any decisive military action on the part of U.S. troops across the Atlantic. The U.S., instead of fighting, seemed caught in the worst meshes of international politics. The U.S. people had hoped that Casablanca would resolve some discords; in the subsequent letdown they could feel no emotion more constructive than restlessness...
...Sunday Punch," the other feature, does little to relieve the letdown of the first film. It's the success story of a house full of would-be Gene Tunneys and Billy Conns, who are spurred on by the charm of comely Jean Rogers, an unconvincing gold digger and torch singer. William Lundigan and Dan Dailey, Jr., work their way up together through the YMCA leagues into big time and finally battle it out, in the championship bout, for Rogers. Lundigan is KO'd, but gets the gal, who has in the meantime changed her ways. Even ring fans will find...