Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winged Victory is more a paean to youth than a picture of war. Incorrigibly boyish in tone, it might plead that most Air Forces cadets are little more than little boys. But the boyishness, which merely prettifies the first half of Winged Victory, somewhat falsifies the second half. Far from toughening Playwright Hart's flyers, actual war makes them almost more tender. The later scenes taper off anyhow, like postscripts in a cruder scrawl. Playwright Hart's real play is the training of a cadet. That story is not only vivid and self-contained...
...mustached Jean Paul Fernel has thrice lost his doctor's license since he graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1911. Last week the Food & Drug Administration got him convicted in Chicago District Court. On trial with "Dr." Fernel was Fernel's "Breasts of Youth," a brand of capsules which he peddled (at $5 for a month's supply) through ads in Beauty and Health News, a "bimonthly" that came out whenever he got around to it. Sample quote: "A lovely breast is like a melody. . . . Woman's happiness, popularity and success...
Died. Joseph ("Old Joe") Rank, 89, England's richest man, an inconspicuous centimillionaire; in Reigate, England. A tall, soberly tailored flour miller, in his Yorkshire youth he felt a call to the Methodist missions, decided instead to follow Methodist Founder John Wesley's injunction: "Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can." In his fortunate grain deals he counseled with God. When his World War I profits distressed him-and Premier Lloyd George told him that only an Act of Parliament could take his business out of the black-he turned...
...Youth In Crisis (March of Time) and Children of Mars (RKO-Radio) are two unusually vivid, powerful, short films about wartime juvenile delinquency.* Both films cover the same ground, but they are so different in approach and emphasis that they supplement each other...
...Youth in Crisis deals more with the cause and extent of the problem than with the cure. The film shows the lack of emotional security in homes robbed of their parents by war plants and rocked by the immeasurable restiveness created by war itself. Babies wake screaming in siren-haunted blackouts. Boys just below draft age go on alcohol, marijuana and obscene-book jags, shrug off the discipline of parents who earn no more than they do. Mothers find it next to impossible to advise teen-age daughters who, erotically, are almost as experienced as Mother...