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...this cast, which seems equally at home on land, on the sea, and in the air. Mary Astor, as the girl who's always there when the shooting starts, is always attractive scenery. The fact that she can act with the best of a strong cast does not weaken the film. Sydney Green Street, hugely imposing, is the perfect villain of the piece. To say that he plays a large part in its success is not a redundancy...
September's moon was waning, and with it the hope of Europe. Another winter of misery and fear would weaken men's spirits and bodies. There was fear for Europe, as well as for Russia, in the voice of Wendell Willkie in Moscow, pleading for a second front (see p. 27) and saying: "Next spring may be too late." But there was also hope in Willkie's voice, and there was still hope in Hitler's Europe. From the Arctic to the Mediterranean that hope sprang anew last week as men said, by their deeds: "Because...
...Germans were winning what they set out to win in Russia this year. They were, that is, achieving their minimum objective for 1942: to weaken Russia so that Soviet power no longer would be the greatest single threat to German hegemony...
...Chinese Army was fighting with renewed confidence and vigor. Far to the south the U.S. had wrested bases from the Japs in the Solomons. It might be that extended Japanese lines were beginning to feel the strain, that Japanese strength in some quarters was beginning to weaken. But of this there was no certainty...
...radio programs can be improved, but disagree with his methods, approve the point of view of Bernard B. Smith, a Manhattan lawyer and student of radio. In the June Harper's, Smith argued that the way to improve radio's service to the public is not to weaken the great chains but to strengthen them by taking programs out of the hands of the advertising agencies. Writing with a sympathetic understanding of network frailties, Lawyer Smith pointed out that the ad agencies-not the networks-develop and control virtually all sponsored programs...