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When asked how he put Mack Trucks back on its feet, Bransome calls in his five top men, points to them and says: "There's your answer." He adds: "We're not supermen doing a superman's job, you know. We just apply common sense...
Another category is the "Superman" theme--with emphasis on the bravery of the officers. In this one, a limping bomber, armed with a book of matches and three drums of gasoline, takes every chance in the annals of heroism, claiming half the enemy fleet destroyed; the other half is taken care of by a submarine commander, C. Dexter Collins of Chestnut Hill. Among the sub crew are Levine from Brooklyn, Gambaroni from the other side of the tracks, and George Washington Lincoln from Georgia...
...Halls of Montezuma" is not a superman comedy of the "Air Force," "Operation Pacific," or "American Guerrilla in the Philippines" stripe. It is a film which must be taken seriously, if only for the fact that roughly half the cast gets killed off, and nobody stands off a Banzai charge of Japs with two grenades, a penknife, and a Louisville slugger. "Halls of Montezuma" attempts to show that war is hell and pretty well succeeds...
Biographer Desmond Young, a wartime British brigadier, is too good a soldier to suppose that Rommel was a superman, but his admiration takes him just this side of hero worship. Brigadier Young was captured in North Africa by Rommel's men, had one brief glimpse of his hero, later escaped in time to serve with Auchinleck in India. After the war, Young went to Germany, talked with Rommel's widow, his son Manfred, his fellow officers and his orderly. When Rommel, the Desert Fox was published in England last year, it sold 170,000 copies to a chorus...
Until this year, the '53 campaign was regarded as the quickest since the war, but even they enlisted monkeys, a cheerleading squad, and a blaring record machine for the fight. One Yardling got dressed up as Superman and single-handed, beat off the barrage of rolls and wet lettuce that greeted his entrance into the dining hall...