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...State of Mississippi, pulls the switches of the only portable electric chair in the world: a new $4,000 contraption on a truck with portable generator, chair, helmet, straps and electrodes. Last week Jimmy and his driver drove their silver-painted exterminator to the Pike County jail. Just before dawn Jimmy dispatched his 14th "client" - one Sam Porter who had slashed a throat too deeply and who, as he sat in the new chair, admonished "all young people to stay away from bad company...
Commandos Strike at Dawn (Columbia) is the coolest, most workmanlike job of fighting that Hollywood has yet produced. This authentic picture of the devil dogs of this war has none of the phony nourishes or mushy fantasy of most Hollywood war films; in it is hardly a melodramatic line. A Norway raid is carried out with letter-perfect realism. Yet for all its realism the raid is strangely unexciting...
...What's worse, 1946 knows nothing of the University's traditions." The day might even dawn, he thought with sorrow, when a Harvard man might not know who a Yardling was, or what to do when he heard the cry of "Rheinhardt!" echoing through the Yard on a warm spring evening. "I don't suppose," he said, half-aloud, "that this year's Freshmen even know who Join the Orange Man and Bob Lampoon were...
...eleven of Kirn's SBDs took off in unusually bad weather for a dawn attack on the Jap seaplane base at Rekata Bay. Weymouth and Mildahn, with four other pilots, reached their target and gave the Japs a nasty surprise. From Henderson Field at dawn, four more SBDs took off on search flights, Weary leading one section, Purdum the other. They sighted five destroyers just out of range for dive-bombing attack. Other pilots took off for antisub patrol off Tulagi, to smoke out Jap land positions on northwest Guadal, to search for some lost pilots...
...Here comes the dawn of a new day, Flags. I wouldn't be surprised if it were a fairly uncomfortable...