Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military air attache in Ottawa was Colonel Jack C. Hodgson, 49, who had been commander for 20 months of the wartime U.S.A.A.F. in central Canada. (His predecessor as attache had only the permanent rank of lieutenant.) One of Colonel Hodgson's last acts as commander of the theater had been to turn over to Canada four airfields, one the big field at Churchill with its paved, 6,000-ft. runways, and ten scattered weather stations throughout the north. This brought the current number of U.S. military attaches in Ottawa to three ground forces officers and five airmen. It also...
...Theater Guild on the Air (Sun. lop.m., ABC). Josephine Hull and Fred Stone in You Can't Take It With...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon bring Madame Curie...
...disease popularly known as jaundice (actually infectious hepatitis; jaundice is only a symptom) was the No 1 nuisance of World War II. It disabled 30,000 G.I.s in the Mediterranean Theater alone. Last week U.S. Army investigators reported that they had finally run down the disease to its most likely source, and found a way to combat it. The source: polluted drinking water...
Parts of A Flag Is Born are colorful theater and parts are biting propaganda; there is nice music by Kurt Weill and nice acting by Paul Muni as an uprooted old Jew who dies on the road to Palestine. But the evening is only fitfully effective. Hitting from all sides, working in all moods-now pathetic, now heroic, now angry, now scornful-A Flag Is Born lacks singleness of impact...