Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people last Saturday, at least, when the Crimson opened its campaign against the starstudded North Carolina Pre-Flight cadets, but the people were all wrong. Instead of being overawed by the vannied Pre-Flight attack, instead of playing the sloppy game predicted by the "Monday morning quarterbacks," Harvard played superb ball up to the last six minutes of the game, when the inherent power of their opponents made itself felt to the tune of two quick touchdowns...
...When Little Rock sold him to the Cubs, the ebullient Newsom started to drive to Chicago to congratulate Owner Phil Wrigley on getting such a superb pitcher. The car, driven at the routine Newsom rate of 90-odd miles per hour, jumped the icy road. Just before spring training, Newsom went to a mule sale, and a mule kicked his freshly healed leg into smithereens again...
...little foxes. Pretty Lucille Ball, who was born for the parts Ginger Rogers sweats over, tackles her "emotional" role as if it were sirloin and she didn't care who was looking. There is also a headwaiter played by sinister, saturnine Hans Conried. He packs so much cold, superb style into his half minute that he makes everybody else's fun look forced...
...restrained narration of Cinemactor Edward G. Robinson. It is full of information and surprises. The voice of Stalin addressing his people on the Soviet 4th of July (Nov. 7) is startlingly unlike the acrobatic orating of modern dictators. Russian Army and Air Force equipment is excellent and plentiful. Superb shots of the Red Army assembled in Moscow's Red Square under a cold November sun show a well-disciplined and equipped force of spirited professional soldiers who look as if they knew their business...
...failure they could tell themselves, for whatever it was worth to their professional pride, that they had done a superb job of soldiering. It was just that Hitler had asked for too much before snow fell. All of them, and many another Junker, went out in the period of midwinter madness when Hitler himself took over the command...