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...such signs the U.S. public learned last week that the newest section of The U.S. Army Air Forces-the Ferrying Command-had started to function. It was furiously busy clearing the pile-up of completed bombers for Britain that had clogged aircraft-factory parking areas. The Ferrying Command, organized only a month ago, had lost its first men. But that was an expected incident. More important, it was delivering ships-to the Atlantic seaboard for shipment by sea, to Canada for flying across the North Atlantic...
...Patrolman John Keany, supervising collections at a Manhattan police station, reported the following incident to the New York Times: "Funny thing happened. A woman come up with a big pot that was black as your hat. Couple of other women saw her put it on the pile and jumped all over her. Said that was no way to give aluminum to the Government, and she must keep some house if her pots were that black. The woman didn't answer back, but just got in a taxi and rode away...
Gary Cooper, the cinema's epitome of a natural American, plays Alvin York to perfection. He has admirable assistance: Mother York (Margaret Wycherly), Pastor Rosier Pile (Walter Brennan), York's sweetheart Gracie Williams (Joan Leslie) and a first-rate supporting cast. The picture also manages to produce an almost documentary description of the meager, resourceful life of the South's mountain folk...
...problems continued to pile up on the President's desk like a range of mountains. For months the President had delayed and stalled, trying to avoid asking Congress to extend indefinitely the draftees' one-year term of service. When time began to close in on him, he still avoided direct personal leadership. Unwilling to buck the line himself, he sent in General George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, to carry the ball and get the lumps. Good Soldier Marshall pounded down the field, through center, off-tackle, around the ends. The watching President couldn't believe...
...still carries a large lump in back of his left ear from approaching a pretty girl in Times Square during the '20s. "Good afternoon, madam-" he had no more than begun when, blam!, something pile-driving hit him from behind. Jimmy turned over and literally threw a punch from the pavement. After the cops had pulled Jimmy out of the crowd and heard his explanation, they told him to beat it and returned to chafing the wrists and temples of the girl's escort...