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...cannot get away from themselves. Guilt and remorse gnaw at their marriage until the old mother (Dame May Whitty) becomes aware of their crime. Paralyzed by the shock, mother sits speechless but blazing-eyed in a wheelchair, biding her time. It comes at last, and with it a spurt of good theater...
...sudden spurt of activity, Chinese troops last week captured Weichow Island, off the South China coast, pierced French Indo-China on a 100-mile front and pushed to within 150 miles of Shanghai. But their biggest success was the recapture of the key city of Liuchow, onetime Fourteenth Air Force base. From that war front, TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White radioed...
...peanuts to what the roads will be handling late this summer, when the heat will really be on. By August the transports shuttling across the Atlantic will be landing 350,000 men a month into sleepers and coaches for a fast trip to regrouping centers. Local traffic will spurt as the groups are furloughed home, then return to camp for regrouping...
...Giants banged their way into the National League lead, was feeling no pain. Every time he hit a home run, drove in a run (three so far), drew a walk (eleven in seven games), or did most anything, he broke his own league record. The Yankees' five-game spurt which made them the team to beat in the American League-despite the Chicago White Sox's five straight wins-did not even raise a smile on Joe McCarthy's square jaw. Said poker-faced Joe: "My team's better than last year...
...tried hard to shake off lean-jawed Specialist 2/C Wally Ris, onetime mechanical engineering student at the University of Illinois. He got no farther than a half-stroke ahead in three laps. Then they both flubbed the all-important last turn, squared away even for the final spurt. Whispered 21-year-old Wally to himself: "Beat him . . . beat him." He did-by a touch, and in New York A.C. pool-record time (51.3 seconds...