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Except for 90-year-old America, matriarch of U.S. racing yachts, no U.S. racing boat is more beloved by U.S. yachtsmen than the three-masted schooner Atlantic. On any yacht-club veranda, mention of her name unwinds a reel of yarns...
...wide-eyed undergraduate if this film had been a faked plug for the Hitler machine. We could have laughed at the gum-drop exploits of some Nazi Robert Taylor. But the swift, systematic crushing power of the German war machine in action, recorded on a crudely-filmed, undeniably authentic reel, is no stuff for comedy. A firm impression of well-trained might sticks in the mind much longer than fantastic terrorism...
...suggests the possibility of perpetual motion. It looks like Lew Ayres is going to pursue Laraine Day forever. Lionel Barrymore and the customary minor characters are present along with Robert Young, who was probably thrown in to differentiate this from the first five in the series. In the news reel, the Wendell Wilkie crusade sweeps through England with W.W. discussing things with everyone from Churchill to the man in the shelter. Unfortunately for those wearied by his hoarse-voiced campaign. Willkie is still doing most of the talking...
...folks' home, Parson William S. ("Doc") Waddell, an ex-circus man, stood next to Dode's favorite sunflower (see cut), praised the dead, and exhorted the company to heed Dode's sign, laugh and talk. The three-piece orchestra blared Mc-Cloud's Reel, Happy Days are Here Again and, with audience joining, The Man on the Flying Trapeze. A strolling "prompter" was there to remind those who might weep. None did. Old Dode Fisk's last show...
...Pasadena, the Rose Bowl, oldest and most coveted of U. S. bowl games, drew the largest crowd: 91,500.* They went to see the final reel in the rags-to-riches thriller that made Clark Shaughnessy and his Stanford team the standout football performers of 1940. Up from the cellar to Pacific Coast champions in one season, the undefeated Indians faced a steamrolling Nebraska eleven that had been stopped only once-by mighty Minnesota...