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...wanderings. This week two picaresque stories are mirror images of each other. In Transit U. S. A. (Stokes; $2.50) Author W. L. River leads simple-minded Curly Martin from California through Arizona deserts, a Missouri road gang, Chicago's skid road, Ohio industrial warfare to Manhattan in a vain search for the capitalist who unwittingly ruined Curly 's business. Martin Flavin's Mr. Littlejohn (Harper; $2.50) is a simple-minded capitalist who drifts from Manhattan to California in search of Truth. Like Curly Martin's his simpleness is more absurd than lovable, his roadside adventures magnificently...
...Alumni Bulletin in its first issue of the year has declared a state of emergency, in which "all talk which has no outlet in performance is vain." It has called for a "direct contribution to the national security from every one of 8,000 men now in attendance at Harvard." This is not the first time Americans have heard such a call. The President of the United States, seven long years ago, declared a state of emergency, and called for united action against the economic and social ills that afflicted "one-third of a nation." Back in those days...
...with the Finns, for two months serving in the infantry and in the airforce, until peace was declared in March. He reached Oslo less than a week before Nickolas von Falkenhausen, Hitler's invading general, and he departed from the German-infested city with a Belgian friend in a vain attempt to join the Norwegian army by traveling through Sweden...
...vain foes of the amendment argued that it would open the House to the charge of playing politics with defense, that no one would be drafted until after Election Day anyway. When Georgia's Edward Eugene ("Goober'') Cox exclaimed of the amendment: "To accept it would convince the people of this country that the membership of this House is only an aggregation of self-serving politicians," its fate in a House of 435 politicians was sealed. The amendment was adopted 185-to-155. More notable to many a Representative was the sight of Republican National Chairman...
...collaborates with a pretty, ambitious lyricist (Mary Martin) in knocking out the popular tunes which make Basil Rathbone a Manhattan social superba. When Crosby and Martin set out to write under their own names they are accused of stealing the Rathbone style, tramp the edges off their heels in vain visits to song publishers. With this tissue-thin plot Director Victor Schertzinger has managed to string to gether 90 minutes of first-rate crooning by Crosby and Martin, lively trumpeting by famed one-armed Swingster Wingy Mannone, some casual, restful reading of Scenarist Dwight Taylor's smooth lines...