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Little Girls, Big Ships. Already discarded by military airmen is the notion that women airmen are good only for flying light craft like Piper Cubs and Aeroncas. Featured airwomen like Jackie Cochran long ago kicked the theory on the shins by flying such "hot" craft as the Seversky P-35, the Lockheed Hudson (one of which she helped push across the Atlantic). The WAFS' new graduates had proved it in the mass. They had flown everything from grasshoppers to snappy two-engined Cessna...
...this reminds you of "The Pied Piper", only no Monty Wooley to lighten refugee burdens, don't say you weren't warned. Laraine Day and Robert Young can't seem to do much about it, and "Margaret" is only wistfully effective. For married men and sugared sentimentalists only. P.S. The journey is across Europe, of course...
Four of the pluckiest ships in the U.S. Navy were the old four-piper destroyers which had some of their guns taken off and boilers taken out, and then were camouflaged to look like palm-fringed jungle, so that they could shuttle Marines to the Solomons in the first phases of the campaign. All four were sunk. What it felt like to be on-and later off-one of them, the Gregory, what it feels like to be sunk in any sea battle, was vividly described in the U.S. last week by Machinist's Mate George Thomas Rhodes...
Monty Woolley has doffed his smirk and wisecracking manner, but he's retained all his spark and individuality as the gruff title character of the "Pied Piper." The saga of one Englishman's battle to escape the rush of the Nazi armies through France, and of the waifs he picks up on his way, the "Pied Piper" is an original and highly effective film account of one of the dramatic episodes of this...
...Pied Piper" is escapist fare, to be sure, but it'll leave you with the feeling that here, at least, is a movie that recognizes and presents some of the less obvious problems of World...