Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officials in Washington confessed that the U.S. performance had been poor. In recent months, with Stalingrad in the balance, shipments had been less than they were last spring. Russia's rubber supply was critically low and promised U.S. action was long overdue. Russia had cried for locomotives. She got only part of the number she asked for, and those were not the kind she wanted...
...misplaced, sophisticated dance team and a couple of singers pull down the average, but Willie Howard usually pops up again to make you forget it. Only the headliners are really good and this conglomeration isn't turned into a really good show. But, despite the handicap of a poor script it turns out to be an entertaining evening, which goes to show that "It ain't what you do, it's the way that...
Where Was the R.A.F.? Admiral Hart is against a separated air force. He points to the poor British record of employing planes with ships, cries: "The only thing that would have saved Singapore would have been the success of Admiral Sir Tom Phillips' attempt to place his heavy ships where they could sink the Japanese transports at sea. We have never heard why the R.A.F. fighters, which were half an hour away, gave Admiral Phillips no help whatever" (when H.M.S. Prince of Wales and H.M.S. Repulse were sunk...
...Poor MGM hasn't made a decent musical in years, and "Hattie" is no exception. Thanks to the Hays Office little remains of the original Broadway hit. Ann Sothern's modest attempts to imitate Ethel Merman's exuberance are completely frustrated by thoroughly bad direction; an incredibly obnoxious little girl named Jackie Horner should have been left in a corner; and Cole Porter's score, one of his poorest, is hampered by the addition of even worse numbers. The only relief from the tedium is Virginia O'Brien, with more material and less dead-pan, and Lena Horne, whose rendition...
Have just been reading in my April 13 TIME letters from some of your readers complaining about TIME being a day or two late -poor souls...