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...picked a time for his new landing party when Douglas MacArthur's usually competent airmen were inexplicably and disastrously off their stride. The week of butterfigered fielding of what was, aeronautically, a pop fly began when the Jap raided Port Moresby. Beyond flicking fragments from his daisy-cutter bombs through the tents of two sergeants and every stitch of their clothing, he did little damage. What rocked the United Nations force was that its crack anti-aircraftsmen, who had been nipping Nip bombers consistently (see p. 44), got not a single hit. It was a rotten show...
...Street and to classes in knee-length shorts. The Class of 1045W (for war), biggest freshman class (1,059) in Yale history, sweated at the biggest freshman rally. In substance, if not in form, life at Yale was much as usual last week. The college took in its stride its first summer opening and a new "Yale Plan," which compelled the student body to join up for war service to the last...
What coughers in the audience are to indoor concerts, honking horns, backfire, the drone of airplanes, the crash of thunder and squirpling crickets are to summer concerts. Most audiences and musicians have learned to take such incidental orchestration in their stride. But at Vancouver B.C.'s open-air pavilion, Baritone John Charles Thomas encountered one alfresco sound too many-a persistent bullfrog in a nearby pond. Every time Baritone Thomas began to sing, the bullfrog answered. Thomas hit a low note, the bullfrog followed him. At last Thomas was about ready to holler "Uncle." Before he began his next...
...drilled with the rest of the cast on a vacant lot in Manhattan. Two mornings a week (Sundays 8:45 a.m., Thursdays 9:30 a.m. E.W.T.) his strumming guitar and his warm tenor voice plugged the Army show over CBS. He took the daily Jive stint happily in stride...
With these attributes. Cagney manages to suggest George M. Cohan without carbon-copying the classic trouper. He has the Cohan trick of nodding and winking to express approval, the outthrust jaw, stiff-legged stride, bantam dance routines, side-of-the-mouth singing, the air of likable conceit. For the rest, he remains plain Jimmy Cagney. It is a remarkable performance, possibly Cagney's best, and it makes Yankee Doodle a dandy...