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...story, part pulp dramatics, part pure action, is that hardy perennial about the squadron commander (John Wayne); his friend, the nurse (Anna Lee); the rookie who gets killed (William Shirley); the oldtimer who gets grounded (Paul Kelly); the drunk who is given Another Chance (Edmund MacDonald); the show-off individualist (John Carroll) who learns, at last, what the fight is about, but not until he has played hob with the squadron's morale, materiel and lifeblood. This simple stereotype proves adequate to convey some of the true power and meaning of simple men doing a life-&-death job together...
...pulp writer worth his salt knows that when his locale is darkest Africa he can't use too many drums. In a good standard plot, talking drums warn fierce natives of the unsuspecting white man's approach while the reader shudders. Last week in Natural History Dr. Albert Irwin Good, who understands Bulu and related African dialects, published the first popular article on the linguistics of drums, the complicated telegraphy whereby African drummers talk across the jungle...
...mysteries of contemporary publishing has been a cadaverous onetime pulp writer named Joseph Hilton Smyth. Four years ago he suddenly emerged from Greenwich Village obscurity, bought the venerable magazines Living Age and North American Review. Then he bought into Current History. Before long he bought a good slice of the staid Saturday Review of Literature. He also founded a weekly newsletter called The Foreign Observer, a press service called the Negro News Syndicate...
...down the orchard and smash the beehives." Apple, pear and apricot trees laden with still unripe fruit fell one after another. "Pile it up in the street," the old man said. "Let anybody who wants take it, and what is left the armored tractors will crush to pulp when they come...
...baby pants, footwear, gloves, hospital sheeting, garden-hose, electrical insulation and even gas masks was announced by Hercules Powder Co. last week. Such uses formerly consumed 60,000 tons of rubber a year. The new plastic is a soft form of ethyl cellulose, made of cotton linters or wood pulp and grain alcohol. It is as pliable, flexible, nonporous and durable as rubber, but is not so elastic or resilient, and tears more easily. Hence it is not good for tires or tubes. But it is flameproof and does not lose its flexibility at 70° below zero, thus...