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...kitchen of a Brazilian industrialist that the strangest agent of them all was bagged. Brushing back the coarse black hair of the family cook, Brazilian cops were confronted by a captain of the Japanese Army. For five years he had been posing as a woman, and was rated a fine hand with a saucepan...
Masterminding W9XBK's school was one of the strangest geniuses ever to wear the Navy's gold braid: gaunt, towering, post-deaf Lieut, (j.g.) William Crawford Eddy, U.S.N. Retired, who went from NBC's Manhattan television studio to build and operate W9XBK for Balaban & Katz in the fall...
...open this week came the strangest internal fight in U.S. airline history. The battlers: nimble, Washington-wise, $60,000,000 Pan American Airways v. cagev, 90-year-old, multi-million-dollar W. R. Grace & Co., shippers, bankers and international traders. Pan Am boasts many a foe's scalp; Grace has a reputation for never losing a battle. The prize is domination of a great airline they started together, Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra). The only important airline on the whole west coast of South America, Panagra flies over 8,000 route-miles from the Canal Zone to Santiago...
Last week people in the U.S. could read about the germination of this strangest of all the war's campaigns. Just published was a book by an ace reporter,* which told a grim and exciting story of the brief Balkan campaign. Robert St. John, then an A.P. man in Belgrade, followed the campaign from Yugoslavia to Egypt. What he has to say reads less like history than like a huge, super-delayed, super-exciting news dispatch...
...Sullivan's Travels" is one of the strangest pictures that has come out of Hollywood in a long time; and also one of the best. Whatever it is is due entirely to Preston Sturges, because he both wrote and directed it, and because the ideas and the moods, rather than the plot, are the body of the film. Though Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake dos serve a good bit of credit for some fine acting, you cannot help feeling in a picture like this that they are merely interpreting somebody else's ideas. And those ideas are undoubtedly Mr. Sturges...