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Somewhere I'll Find You (M.G.M.) is a farewell piece for Clark Gable, now a corporal in the Army Air Forces at Miami Beach. If he lacked stomach for the job (he has made no other picture since the death of his wife, Carole Lombard, in a plane crash last spring), he tries manfully to conceal the fact, does more than his share in turning out a typical Gable show, loud, expert, witty, rough...
...newly recruited Indiana naval air squadron named themselves the Lombar-diers, in honor of the late Cinemactress Carole Lombard (whom Hoosier Elmer Davis called "one of Indiana's greatest contributions to culture...
...quit to freelance, wrote popular fiction. Scholarly in tone and appearance, he is no pedant. When the Saturday Review of Literature carried a weighty article on Indiana authors some years ago, he wrote a dour reply: Indiana's greatest contribution to culture was unquestionably the late Cinemactress Carole Lombard...
...Business School graduate in 1939, Robert S. McNamara has moved up from instructor in accounting to assistant professor of Business Administration, and George F. F. Lombard '33 was promoted from instructor to assistant professor of Industrial Research...
Fortunately, the lapse in "To Be Or Not To Be" comes close to the beginning--may, in fact, have resulted from padding necessitated by Miss Lombard's untimely death--and does not substantially mar the comic effect of the film...