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...this week, on the day Singapore fell, Franklin Roosevelt did answer the fears of Canadians who share the U.S. people's frustration. It was a soft answer. In a broadcast to Canada, the President praised the Dominion's war effort, called what Canadians have done "the achievements of a great nation." Said the President: "There is peril ahead for us all, and sorrow for many. But our cause is right...
...shopping, to friends for a drink. Cars drew up to the Raffles Hotel and disgorged their passengers in time for the daily tea dance. Outside a cinema people lined up to see Joel McCrea and Ellen Drew in Reaching for the Sun. Eric Davis, director of the Malayan Broadcasting Corp., cracked open a letter from a gramophone concern, read that a certain tune "is unavailable for broadcast without special permission of Messrs. Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse...
...when they attempt to go beyond the fact to determine exactly wherein his greatness lies or squeeze the amorphous mass of symphonic hodge-podge that he left behind into a coherent critical straight-jacket, then there is a great variety of opinion. The Mahler cycle which is being broadcast every alternate Sunday at 12:30 by the Radio City Music Hall symphony orchestra is a very courageous and worthwhile undertaking, but the interpretations dispensed by the announcer during the pauses are for the most part a fanciful concoction and not borne out by the nature of the music...
From San Antonio's station WOAI last week a pleasant little brunette voice broadcast to the world how she had met a "dashing, handsome second lieutenant" in the Philippines, had lived happily with him ever after. The informative lady was Mrs. Walter Krueger, wife of the commander of the Third Army. Her observations were part of a program called Army Wives...
...Cleo Wright was shot, dragged behind an automobile, and burned in gasolene. That was at 2:30 p.m. At 3:30, the bloody details were known throughout the South, as well as in Malaya, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and the islands of the Pacific. With a Japanese broadcast to the colored peoples of the world, the American institution of "lynch law" had become a deadly enemy of democracy in a very real as well as in a theoretical sense...