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...Army going to draft men with dependents? Did a notice to report for an Army medical examination mean induction forthwith? Was the Army planning to call men by age groups rather than by number? Had the Army reduced its training period to a matter of eight brisk weeks...
...forty-five it was all over. The town was occupied, the defenders defeated, and the war finished." With these brisk, matter-of-fact words John Steinbeck begins his brisk, matter-of-fact account of the conquest of a nameless country, resembling Norway, by an invading force, resembling the Nazis. The Moon Is Down is Steinbeck's first important work of fiction since The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and the most resolute and dramatic piece of propaganda that has come out of World...
Sullivan's Travels (Paramount). Scenarist Preston Sturges, who became a cinema director two years ago, has successively and refreshingly satirized U.S. machine politics (The Great McGinty), advertising (Christmas in July), and the boy-meets-girl formula (The Lady Eve). He now aims his brisk sarcasm at the moviemakers themselves...
...nighteries have sprung up on the city's outskirts, complete with music, liquor, slot machines, gambling. Syphilis in Albany has taken an upward turn. Albany's far-famed, carefully supervised red-light district, which used to advertise its wares in neon lights, is doing an embarrassingly brisk trade...
...Kazaks of Qomul lived their nomadic life in China's far western province of Sinkiang until the busy Russians came in 1934. The Chinese Governor had asked their help in subduing a Moslem revolt, and after the revolt they stayed. Also they sent brisk emissaries to "civilize" the Kazaks...