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...week ago the Drama Critics Circle assembled to award their prize to the best American drama of the past year. After haphazard balloting, during which only six of the seventeen critics bothered to vote, no decision was reached and the award was cancelled. Critics agreed in calling this the worst season in the history of the American dram...
...Seventeen times on Sunday, over 17 different wave lengths, Command Performance is short-waved by eleven U.S. radio stations to the armed forces on Bataan Peninsula, to frosty Iceland, Alaska, Ireland, the scorchy Caribbean, to the boys in the Antipodes, the Middle East, wherever they are. It is global entertainment, designed for global...
...Seventeen players will make the annual trip with Stahl and will leave Cambridge Sunday noon. After meeting Georgetown, they go on to games with Johns Hopkins, Navy, George Washington, and two with Penn, all on successive days throughout the week...
...Vichy press release claimed that figures, not yet divulged in open court, would show that on May 10, 1940 France had only seventeen 90-mm. anti-aircraft guns, that there were boots for only 3,000,000 French poilus, when 4,500.000 pairs were needed. This was recrimination with a snarl. It was no news to stricken France. Over their rationed wine the oldsters nodded their heads at an editorial in Le Temps...
...relative obscurity, almost completely over-shadowed by the colossus of total war effort, a basic concept in the long term meaning of that effort is under fire. In Minneapolis on December 1 seventeen men and one woman were convicted of conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the U. S. Government. The case, now on its way to the Supreme Court, has resolved itself into a test of the constitutionality of the Smith Act of 1940, which makes it a penal offense to discuss the over-throw of the government, or to criticize the conduct of the armed forces. Stated...