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...Yates McDaniel is only 35, but his hair is almost white. It should be. As a Far Eastern correspondent for A.P., he retreated up the Yangtze with the Chinese Army, had enough narrow escapes to earn many a thread of silver. His experiences of the past fortnight entitle him to a snow-white thatch for the rest of his life. For Yates McDaniel watched the collapse of Singapore at close hand, filed a dispatch that might well have been the last farewell of a crack reporter...
That was not much time in which to decide whether or not he would live up to the words which A. P. Correspondent Yates McDaniel had expressed just five days before: "For the defenders, this was the test of tests. Alternatives were simple and unqualified: death or victory...
News dispatches contained evidence of incredible complacency. Five days before Singapore fell, the local authorities announced their intention to build air-raid shelters. A.P. Correspondent C. Yates McDaniel overheard a telephone conversation in which the manager of the Singapore radio asked permission of Governor General Sir Shenton Thomas to blow up the station because the Japanese were so close. Sir Shenton demurred; the situation was not so bad, he said. So the station went on broadcasting. Very soon, he wrote, in the midst of an admonition to keep fighting, the station went ominously dead...
...Lowin T McDaniel, of Boston, Mass., an Assistant Medical Adviser; M.D. Harvard...
...unaccustomed wifely role, Miss Davis is believable and moving. Slick, wide-eyed George Brent seems handicapped by his part - little more than a foil for the two women. Men may think that The Great Lie drags somewhat in spots, may get more than enough of Hattie McDaniel's (Maggie's mammy) sunstruck volubility, but female cinemagoers should be able to settle back and view Miss Davis' wifely triumph with thoroughgoing satisfaction...