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...group of highly publicized, incompetent "starlets"; the John Barrymores are giving way to the Ann Sheridans. Home blame the script writers, some the directors. But though each of these arguments may be perfectly valid in regard to specific faults of the movies, they do not arrive at the basic cause for Hollywood's declining standards. This fundamental cause is the belief shared by practically everyone in Holywood, that the movie-going public has an I.Q. a little lower than that of a mentally retarded twelve-year...
...preparing for the invasion's wounded, he and his Chief Surgical Consultant, Harvard's dynamic Dr. Elliott Cutler, insisted on one basic principle: chemotherapy is no substitute for prompt surgery. So they recruited numbers of good surgeons, organized them for front-line work, trained legions of Medical Corpsmen, litter bearers, ambulance drivers, aircraft crews, in expediting the wounded...
...unit of ASTP trainees will begin the long grind of classes this week. The ASTP unit finds itself reduced in number by the loss of the company of 17-year-old army reservists. Transferred out, most of the reservists will soon find themselves going through the paces of basic training...
...things that should be said about Aaron Copland's lecture, "Jazz and Folk-Song Influences" on modern American music which he gave several weeks ago. In dealing with the development of jazz, Mr. Copland made one assertion which rubbed our fur the wrong way--a statement which seems so basic and misleading as to call for a rebuttal...
...nature of the Partisan warfare makes proper medication impossible, with all the Allied help. The basic principle of the Partisan strategy is never to defend a certain area at all costs, but to retreat when the enemy pressure reaches a certain point and conquer new territories else where. This means constant movement of the improvised hospitals and the wounded; therefore, there is no permanent hospital or rest for anybody when the pokret (movement) is ordered...