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Killed on Duty. Major Eric Knight, 45, best-selling novelist (This Above All), comic fantasist (The Flying Yorkshireman); in an air transport crash in Dutch Guiana. Born in Yorkshire, he spent most of his life in the U.S., served in World War I with Canada's crack "Princess Pat" Light Infantry Regiment, won his U.S. Army commission last July...
WASHINGTON--Thirty-five Americans, including Maj. Eric Knight, the author, and two State Department officials were killed Jan. 15 when a big transport plane enroute from the United States to North African and Middle-Eastern destinations crashed in a remote area of Dutch Guiana, it was disclosed tonight...
...since His Double Life in 1934), the story tells about the transformation of the villagers after the arrival of motorized Nazi soldiers, who strike the quiet village with the impact of a powder-plant explosion. The peaceful villagers, goaded by Nazi beatings and killings, finally strike back under Leader Eric Toreson (Paul Muni), who says: "We must learn to be gangsters, thugs, useful with knife, sandbag, dynamite, noose, club and poison...
...resisting the ever-present temptation to saturate a war story with a strong solution of the spectacular, Korda deserves great praise. The success of this film hinges upon its able, all-British cast of Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Godfrey Tearle, and Googie Withers, as well as the fact that its authentic action shots lend to the entire plot a reality that is more interesting than Errol Flynn fighting a thousand Nazis single-handed...
Graduation for this war-time Class of 1943 consisted merely of an abbreviated Class Day, a Senior supper, and the Valedictory. But, as Eric Larrabee wrote in his Ode; "Though the leaves of our laurels are withered and brown, We will bear them as though they were green...