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...life reporting. Baseball was one of those subjects, and "The Sun Field" was a sparkling novel of the lives of the baseball players he knew so well. But Milton Lazarus' dramatization of the novel only serves to show how much of its original success was due to the salty vigor with which Broun plunged into a topic he knew and understood...
...spice and vigor might have pulled so trite a story out of the doldrums, but the author has failed to do anything more than produce a pale imitation of what Broun was driving at. And the leisurely pace of the direction doesn't help much either...
...Partisans, likewise roughly 150,000 strong, were in control in Slovenia and western Bosnia. They were fighting with great vigor against Germans, Italians and any Yugoslav groups whom they suspected of collaborating with the invaders. In rate of numerical growth and in military aggressiveness the Partisans had left Mihailovich's guerrillas behind. Mihailovich leaned heavily on the inactive Government in Exile, and for this reason many of his less enthusiastic followers had joined the Partisans...
...British Raj hasn't changed since Kipling left the Punjab. To the Raj, India is still the cornerstone of the Empire and must be held at all costs. The timeworn clichés with which excesses and failings have been shrouded Miss Mitchell attacks with a Bryn-Mawrian vigor implemented with the background of nine years on the secretariat of the Institute of Pacific Relations...
...thick British fog in the voice that uttered the inspiring words. When Winston Churchill donned his flat-topped bowler and walked among the bomb craters, the people felt that they were seeing the very image of a modern, improved, but deeply traditional and indomitable John Bull. His crusty vigor also suggested the coat of mail of a new St. George, fronting the snorting dragon, Hitler ("that wicked...