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Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, facing court-martial (but probably not till the war's end) for alleged laxity in his command of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, got a job with the Manhattan firm of Frederic R. Harris, Inc., naval designers, doing "special work which the Navy insists must be kept secret...
...Seventh Symphony's proportions are heroic, most obviously so in the 27-minute first movement. The deceptively simple opening melody, suggestive of peace, work, hope, is interrupted by the theme of war, "senseless, implacable and brutal." For this martial theme Shostakovich resorts to a musical trick: the violins, tapping the backs of their bows, introduce a tune that might have come from a puppet show. This tiny drumming, at first almost inaudible, mounts and swells, is repeated twelve times in a continuous twelve-minute crescendo. The theme is not developed but simply grows in volume like Ravel...
...Billy Mitchell's men are still on the job and they are in the top drawer of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Harold L. George, who testified for him in his court-martial in 1926, is a brigadier bossing the Ferrying Command. One of Mitchell's defense counsels, Annapolis-educated Lewis Hyde Brereton, is a major general in command of U.S. Air Forces in India and China. Another defense witness, Henry Harley Arnold, has gone farther than the rest...
...avoidable and almost entirely due to bad strategy and haphazard planning at the top. Churchill, the brilliant rhetorician, Churchill, the astute politician, is akin in spirit to the fabled comedian who eats his heart out longing to star in tragic roles. He has always fancied himself in a martial capacity, for which his particular brilliant attainments are unsuited...
...Hurs do not believe in passive resistance. So last week the British clamped down martial law in the Hurs' part of the frontier province of Sind...