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...Army glider pilots, like Army gliders, were rare as four-leaf clovers. Few air experts knew what gliders could do (except for what they had read about Crete). As far as the U.S. public was concerned, gliding was still a game for a few nutty newsreel daredevils around Elmira...
When sport technicians invaded his pre serve and began to talk in a jargon all their own, McNamee became a master-of-ceremonies, a commentator for Universal Newsreel. Three weeks ago he handled the Elsa Maxwell's Party Line show (Blue, Fridays, 10 p.m. E.W.T.), signed off with his usual "This is Graham McNamee." It was his last sign-off. In a New York hospital (where he had gone because of a streptococcus infection) death last week silenced the voice...
...newspaper photographers and newsreel cameramen rushed across the field, the official reviewing party, headed by Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, and including President Conant, Admiral Tarrant, General Erickson, Chairman Robert H. Hollowell of the Overseers Visiting Committee, and other military and civilian dignitaries left its stand near the baseball grandstand and marched double file to the left of the units which were drawn up at attention. As the cadet officers, with sabres drawn, gave the order "Eyes right," the reviewing party walked the entire length of the ranks for the inspection, and then diagonally back across the field to their seats...
...forms of the white men of Europe. Even after he had smashed at Pearl Harbor, his true form did not emerge. Americans did not yet believe what Pearl Harbor and Wake and Guam told them. They did not believe it because these first reverses of the war had a newsreel quality of unreality...
...latest offerings at the University are not going to win any Academy Awards, but they have this virtue--if you can somehow manage to avoid the newsreel, they will provide three hours of uninterrupted laughs that -- unlike Pearl Harbor, Singapore, et al--are not on you. "Design for Scandal" is in the familiar pattern of sophisticated dialogue comedy; "Rise and Shine" recalls the Joe College musicals of several years ago. Yet both move along briskly, boast a few new twists, and are unpretentiously slap-happy--a pleasant relief from war bulletins and the topheavy sagas of Bogart, Scott or Lynn...