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...begun and ended the battle of Saipan. In Pearl Harbor they wrote with beautiful enthusiasm of American troops swamping the Japs, sweeping up Saipan's beach, blasting blithely through its defenses, sprinting to the island's biggest airport, largest town, highest mountain. They wrote with such smug confidence of victory that no reader and no editor could doubt that American troops here were engaged in a picnic of no consequence. So long as press communications remain as they are in the Pacific the PH copy will always get there first-and will always be false...
...glad we've been able to judge for ourselves by having American soldiers here because now we know what a typical American is like. Perhaps the nicest way I can express what I mean without intending to appear smug is: the Yanks are just like...
...Smug Puss...
...print a story like that unless you are able to report that one of the boys got up and slapped the heartless girl across her smug little puss...
...radio play's rapid improvisation and kidding is lost on the screen, but enough is left to carry the story. The fable itself, as scripted by Lewis Meltzer and Oscar Saul, is given new gentleness, meaning, sadness-the journalists are tougher, the scientists more cruel and smug. The use of Art Baker to play bleating Gabriel Heatter is a master stroke. But Alexander Hall's direction, less nimble than in Here Comes Mr. Jordan, fails to make these ingredients do more than crawl about. Almost never do they get up on their good points and dance...