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...typical U.S. success story (janitor's son to national hero), and Gary Cooper plays it with likable restraint. The film is somewhat overlong, repetitive, undramatic, but the facts stick reasonably close to Gehrig's life. The tone is entirely faithful. Gehrig had a stubborn vigor, a fine sense of sportsmanship, an honest belief in the copybook maxims. Cinemactor Cooper manages to suggest these qualities by being his shy, loping, American self. Cooper's right-handedness faced Hollywood with an appalling problem (Gehrig was a lefty). It was solved by having Cooper bowl, punch a bag, throw pebbles...
...greatest English-speaking nations were never closer together. Never was there a more earnest desire between allies to engage the enemy, and never was there a more hearty resolve to run all risks, to make all sacrifices, to wage this hard war with vigor and to carry it to -a successful conclusion...
...theme. The tremendous growth of these institutions during the first half of the twentieth century is a unique phenomenon. This growth will be recorded by historians as clear evidence that the optimistic intellectual courage born of the fifteenth century Renaissance was, five centuries later, still driving westward with undiminished vigor...
...press was a new note of apprehension that the Navy was not attacking the U-boat problem with sufficiently imaginative vigor, despite the patrol planes, bombers, blimps and surface craft that are dumping bombs and depth charges wherever an enemy sub is suspected...
...True, Bertie," bleated the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, hitting the nail with unaccustomed vigor. "But Bertie, I mean to say, what is one to make of the nauseating news that Swedish journalist fellow just dished up, that Plum has signed on the jolly old dotted with a Nazi film company for two pictures, and that that frightful cad Hitler is giving him special 'courtesy marks' for good behavior? Well, what I mean to say is-fun's fun, but dash it all -." The Hon. Freddie collapsed into bewildered silence...