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...whole film is produced with a couple of million and a flourish, the script lays it on with a shovel, the music is superb, the pace is gusty, and the whole thing is swell stuff...
...loudmouthed, gummy-grinned lame duck Rush Holt (Dem., W. Va.), who rose to flay New York's Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman, who (along with Henry Wallace) had suggested that the Axis powers wanted Roosevelt beaten. Lehman himself was fanning a war hysteria, said Holt, in order to swell the dividends of Lehman Corp., of which his cousin is president, and which, said Holt, holds shares in Bendix Aviation, Vultee, Stinson and Lockheed Aircraft, Hercules Powder, Dow Chemical, New York Shipbuilding, Freeport Sulphur, and Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown and U. S. Steel...
...Francisco Symphony play U. S. music, with such composers as Howard Hanson and William Grant Still conducting their own pieces. Edwin McArthur conducted Deems Taylor's Circus Day. The amplification was tinny, airplanes zoomed, firecrackers popped, a military band zing-boomed past but everyone thought the concert was swell. The evening shindig filled the Coliseum (capacity 15,000) and Festival Hall (3,000), left more than 5,000 people clamoring outside. For the 33 numbers on the program, ASCAP and Tin Pan Alley had shot the works. Composers like Jerome Kern and Sigmund Romberg played the piano...
...Burrage 3rd '42 was the youngest, hardest working of the group and did a swell job," Willis said. William Nickerson '31 saw service at Amiens, Beauvais, and on the Oise. He also became separted from his section, and joined the Versailles Hospital, where he did excellent work for the rest...
...brand-new fact faced the U. S. people last week-peacetime conscription. On Registration Day, set for Oct. 16, more than 16,000,000 young Americans will register for the draft that is to swell the ranks of the U. S. Army to the unprecedented peacetime figure of nearly 1,000,000 men by January 1941. If there was grumbling or kidding among the young men most concerned (aged 21 to 36), there was not enough of it to get into the papers. A few "youth leaders" denounced the draft, but youth itself appeared prepared to take things as they...