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...last week got a ready-made 1944 platform from Wendell Willkie. An extraordinary number of the 1,859 U.S. daily newspapers published seven short articles written by the excandidate. Willkie turned down an $18,000 offer by one magazine, gave the articles free to the newspapers, to get the widest possible publication...
Field's art resembles Chaplin's-who is Field's idol. It outlaws smut and disdains fast gags, relying on reality lightened by absurdity, on comedy deepened by pathos. But, unlike Chaplin, Field enhances his pantomime with a full set of voices and intonations and the widest mastery of English accents on the English stage. Field has gusto as well. "At last," wrote the Sunday Times's magisterial James Agate, "the stage has an actor who knows how to exuberate...
Target: a Peninsula. As the General's ships took on the cargo of invasion, the General's planes droned over the sea. For a fortnight they had pounded the southwest end of the long (300 miles), thin (60 miles at the widest), scimitar-shaped, jungle-covered, volcano-studded island that was once a German colony, then an Australian mandate until captured by the Japs...
Tensely the task ships waited for word. One hour after the takeoff it came: "Enemy taken by surprise." Kwajalein's roomy lagoon (80 miles long, 20 miles at the widest) was full of shipping: sampans, inter-island craft, seagoing merchantmen, tankers, warships. Said a U.S. pilot: "It was a dive bomber's paradise, and we turned it into a Japanese hell." The score after ten minutes of concentrated attack: two light cruisers, one oiler, three cargo transports sunk; one troop transport, three cargo transports damaged; grounded planes and shore installations hard...
...From? ($1). Once Author Chase was a tub thumper for a planned economy run from the top by a general staff of technicians, with U.S. industry-and consumers- regimented at the bottom (A New Deal, The Economy of Abundance). Now he raises his voice just as lustily for the widest possible free enterprise. The Federal Government would in effect underwrite a free U.S. economy, keeping the lightest of fingers on the controls...