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Because it is sincerely written and carefully acted, notably by Miss Lupino, and because Vincent Sherman is one Hollywood director who tries to make every shot count, In Our Time manages now & then to give domestic point to the political drama in the background. But much of it is too purely domestic, and some of it suggests a blunted, insensitive imitation of Chekhov...
Asked a correspondent: "Are you willing or ready to use General Sherman's remark that 'I will not accept if nominated, and I will not serve if elected...
...Britain. General MacArthur's men (Marine veterans of Guadalcanal) had won their objective on New Britain's western tip: the Japs' two Cape Gloucester air strips, 250 miles from Rabaul. With an accurate pre-invasion bombardment, with Sherman tanks, heavy artillery and pillbox-killing flamethrowers, they had overwhelmed the Jap defenses in four days and a few hours. Now they pressed into the jungle hinterland, where a Jap remnant had dragged artillery to shell the airfield. Enemy resistance was fanatic. At this spot alone, almost 1,000 Japs were slain, many in suicidal counterattacks. Reported Navy Secretary...
Major General Sherman Miles, Commanding General of the First Service Command; Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, Commandant of the First Naval District; and Rear Admiral Richard H. Laning, Medical Corps, First Naval District, represented the armed forces at the ceremonies. The Army trainees were commissioned First Lieutenants, and the Navy trainees Lieutenants...
Senator O'Mahoney asked the Senate Judiciary Committee a long list of pertinent questions about the Bailey-Van Nuys bill to exempt insurance from the Sherman and Clayton Acts. Instead of popping the bill through quickly and quietly, as had been expected-and as the House Committee had already done with an identical bill-the Senators hastily slapped it back on a subcommittee desk, and now called for a full-dress investigation. O'Mahoney's fight was bolstered by sensational feature stories in the Chicago Sun and New York City's leftish PM telling in great...