Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repertory of good old-fashioned music. They also get the skilled elbow-waving of a veteran bandmaster named B. (for Benjamin) A. (for Albert) Rolfe, whose red face, wheezing voice and massive (230 Ib.) figure have become as indigenous to the Long Island landscape as the oil wells atop Signal Hill. A man who started as an infant-prodigy cornetist and went on to conduct radio's Lucky Strike dance orchestra, Rolfe took over the Long Beach Band last year when its founder, an oldtime Sousa (cornet) soloist named Herbert Lincoln Clarke, decided to retire...
...members of resistance movements ... I say 'follow the instructions you have received.' To patriots who are not members of organized resistance groups I say 'continue your passive resistance, but do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal to rise and strike the enemy. . . . Until that day I call on you for the hard task of discipline and restraint...
...province of Shensi, barred to correspondents since 1939. First stop in Shensi was at Sian, since 1937 the Kuomintang's key military and political bastion against the Communist threat. There the correspondents were handsomely wined & dined. Dense crowds lined the streets, breaking into staccato cheers at a given signal. Waiters had "V" for Victory hastily stitched on their caps. A plane had brought them to the capital of Shensi; busses and horses would take them over the rest of their three-month inspection tour. The Government had promised no political censorship, provided the reports carried Chungking's side...
...Army Signal Corps; RKO-Radio). The subject: war. The purpose: to make war as real as possible to people who will never otherwise experience it. The result is no more entertaining than war is. But from first to last it is impossible not to stare with fascination at this film...
...told, while it watches young fighting men hunch miserably in the drenching rain. Some of the commentary in Attack is mawkishly "American," but most of it is as direct and unaffected as most of the shots. There are clearly some fine anonymous camera and sound men in the Signal Corps. The clanging iron gangways, the rattle of unloading, the grunt and nutter of motors struggling in the mud add much to 'Attack's power. And at the film's end the almost inaudible mutter of burial prayers gives a simple validity to the closing shot (an open...