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Last week Mediterranean Allied Air Forces headquarters in Italy disclosed that, since early August, 100 four-engined British bombers had been sent out on the 1,750-mile nonstop route to Warsaw and back, to drop weapons and ammunition by parachute to the harried patriots. The pilots had to throttle down low over the city to make reasonably sure that their consignments reached Poles and not Germans. Twenty-one bombers were shot down; several more failed to deliver their loads...
...recorded sound track of a smalltown, intensely feminine mind which for 30 years, with unabated enthusiasm and energy, has been hanging over Hollywood's back fence, talking like a ruptured water main to hundreds of thousands of other smalltown, intensely feminine minds. Most of the talk is a nonstop, hypnotic colloquy, starched with babbling anecdote. But the book includes little about Lolly Parsons as good as the things it leaves...
...time off, Tracy plays tennis with his son Johnny, clacks with his boyhood crony, Pat O'Brien, talks with Victor Fleming about horses and about the war career of their close friend Clark Gable. A nonstop gum chewer and candy nibbler who describes himself as "a box of chocolates broadened out into a character actor," Tracy has recently lost weight (8 Ib.) because war has drastically curtailed his formal supply of sweets...
...Fifth, like the Eighth, laid down a barrage, the most concentrated of the Italian campaign. All one day 300 Allied planes shuttled between their south Italian runways and the narrow mountain sector around Mignano, gave the Germans a galling taste of nonstop bombing and strafing. At 5:30 p.m. the land guns opened up, did not rest during the night...
Into the few hours of battle that follow, Author Forester packs enough action to guarantee nonstop reading. But his high points emerge in a fascinating commentary on the cruiser's engineering and human mechanisms...