Word: successful
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...artillery and more artillery, supporting and opening the way for infantry and tanks. Aircraft could-and did-function as flying artillery, but the Eighth Army's main effort in the preliminary stage was to build up its artillery strength. The Germans presumably did the same thing-with what success, the British were learning this week...
...Guadalcanal may be lost, but its loss will not be like that of Bataan. There are more continental U.S. troops-including recently arrived Army forces-on Guadalcanal than there ever were on Bataan. The Japs apparently do not yet have three-to-one superiority classically thought necessary for certain success. On Guadalcanal, U.S. forces have had absolute air superiority-maintained though it has been under primitive, improvised conditions. Most important of all, Guadalcanal is not an encircled bastion "there is a solid, though terribly long, supply line between it and its U.S. arsenal...
...purpose was to frighten U.S. airmen with threats of savage punishment ("including the death penalty"), Tokyo had failed. If an incidental purpose was to further Berlin's prisoner-propaganda, the Japs had succeeded. If their purpose was to discredit U.S. official spokesmen, they had a certain measure of success. The Office of War Information argued that there were sensible-but secret-reasons for withholding the fact that some flyers had landed in Japanese territory. If so, this did not excuse falsification, and it did not better the plight of the captured pawns...
...other quarter, '46 star Mail Moley vanquished Varsity player Hugh Hyde, who is running cross country this fall, by the scores of 6-2, 6-2. Moley attacked Hyde's back-hand and rushed the net with success, but when Hyde tried the same tactics he missed too many shots to make it profitable...
...then failed to give it the performance it deserves. Paul Osborn's "The Vinegar Tree" has all the characteristics of delightful farce: sparkling dialogue, timely action, and an appealing story. Except for an unnecessarily tricky final curtain, the play itself can easily be cast and directed to complete success...