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Even less courteous was the Chungking Foreign Correspondents' Club, which called Taylor's plan "preposterous and presumptuous." Correspondents' Club members, who had been working at the tortuous, tangled Chinese censorship problem long before Henry J. Taylor dropped in, planned to go right on working at it after he had gone...
...diction of several of the players. Blanche Yurka and Bert Lytell, as the hero's parents, are adequate in poorly-constructed roles, as are other less-important actors, Unfortunately for the audience, however, the author decided to-include in his piece several juveniles of the most objectionable variety. Tortuous as it is to sit through lengthy minutes of childish mock battles and other entertaining sports, it becomes living death by comparison to endure more than two hours of little boys and girls wandering around an obviously rural setting and talking in the most Brooklyn possible of accents...
From two directions Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift's I Corps moved on Baguio, summer capital of the Philippine Government. It was hard slugging over tortuous mountain terrain dominated by Japanese mortar and artillery fire. Progress was measured in yards. Fighting was a matter of probing the resistance with infantry patrols, then falling back until artillery could soften the hard spots-and they were very hard...
...picture would be no great shakes as a story if at every point, through a dozen means other than those of plot, it did not make itself illuminating, touching, and delightful. The tortuous protocols of preparation for the duel, and the duel itself, between the brave but reluctant contestants, is as pretty a satire on diplomacy and war and national character as the movies have achieved. Candy's relationship with his beloved girls, reticent, boyishly idealistic and far more deeply felt than the eye can see, is a moving exposition of a kind of love the movies rarely...
...campaign to reopen a road to China through northern Burma, "Vinegar Joe," at 59, proved himself a crack field commander, a masterly tactician-and also a driving, red-tape-be-damned anti-diplomat. His men, Chinese and American, saw him frequently from their jungle foxholes. He jeeped across the tortuous terrain indefatigably, injected his high-octane personality into every advance...