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This is one reason why TIME cannot get along with just the services of the Associated Press, but must also have its own staff of 201 correspondents and 22 editorial offices in the United States and all over the world -to provide background information on the news and verify facts the editors believe to be in doubt. It is one reason why every week special TIME people in the field send us by wire or cable or phone about 100,000 words of answers-to-queries and special news research-one reason why during a recent working day 88 special...
...Background for all this is a lush setting which may be one of the last glimpses of old-style Hollywood opulence that cinema audiences will have for the duration. Happy Go Lucky also has love potions, sultry calypso songs and dances by a group of Trinidadians headed by "Sir Launcelot" Pinard, some first-rate Frank Loesser...
...vivid background on the Libyan desert and some of the most utterly realistic battle scenes ever filmed hold up an otherwise flimsily constructed picture. Henry Fonda goes through the process of becoming a leader of men under the tutelage of Thomas Mitchell, who is the sergeant in charge of a lost sunrise-patrol. Every so often, there is a flash-back to Maureen O'Hara, because Hollywood has just got to work romance in somehow. Since Maureen isn't on the scene of action it moves along fairly well, but not on a par with terrific action scenes, which alone...
...years ago a retired doctor was welcomed into the league. First time at bat, he socked a ball into left field, trotted around to second base, then turned a cartwheel to prove he was not in the least bit tuckered. His suspicious teammates delved into the doctor's background, discovered he was only 73, banished...
...tragic present. The mind's anniversaries are personal. Historians can set a date for Newton's discoveries, but not for the epoch that began when millions acknowledged their truth. Children who were ten when the Japanese shelled the barracks at Mukden are 22 now. Against a darker background than their parents ever knew, their first loves and their first jobs began; their play ended and their work and their fighting started...