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...most devout followers can't deny that his tunes get repetitions. By itself the score of "Holiday Inn" is certainly above the average run of Tin Pan Alley drivel. But when you have already heard his output for the past twenty years--and who hasn't?--the score seems pale and derivative...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 12/1/1942 | See Source »

...people could add Mike Moran's seven words to the small and oft-repeated catalogue of their heroes' laconic battle phrases. They were better words, perhaps, than John Paul Jones's "I have not yet begun to fight," better, certainly, than Commodore George Dewey's pale and measured, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." They mirrored the tempo of 1942's savage fighting, they caught the spirit of a confident U.S.: the bigger they are the harder they fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: They, Too, Were Expendable | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...spice and vigor might have pulled so trite a story out of the doldrums, but the author has failed to do anything more than produce a pale imitation of what Broun was driving at. And the leisurely pace of the direction doesn't help much either...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: PLAYGOER | 11/27/1942 | See Source »

Caparisoned in a tank-corps beret, ensconced in a tank, the avenging Montgomery rode on deep and dangerous tours of the battlefield, his pale blue eyes and his thin beak of a nose turned west, farther west. Methodically, ruthlessly, he followed up the bloody, broken trail of the Afrika Korps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Bishop's Son | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...think straight because of Durwood alcohol I just drank," mumbled the Ashley pale Sage, "but things will probably get pretty Savage in the Stadium today. Whether the score is Harlow, I predict that Jawn will open the flood Gates, and De Angelis will be singing over the Bear's body tonight. Harvard 14, Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hu Flung Flings 'Em | 11/14/1942 | See Source »

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