Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Patterned after the WMCA original, the CBS-Army program will pipe music by the U. S. Military Academy Band from West Point, stress the opportunities of advancement the Army offers. Interviewed by veteran Radio Actor Ray Perkins, a major in the reserve corps, new recruits will explain why they enlisted; old-timers will describe their happy lot; mess sergeants will dwell on the tastiness of Army fare; Army wives will rejoice about life among the soldiers. Adding dignity to the show will be many an Army bigwig like Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum, Commanding General of the First Army...
Many a theory was hatched to explain the albacore's strange migration. Theory or no theory, California fishermen were deserted by the white-meat albacore, left .with the less tasty, dark-meat yellowfin tuna...
...world (No Other Man) is ended at one stroke by a death ray. Only survivors are Hero Mark. Heroine Evelyn (they were submerged in a submarine and a diving bell respectively when the ray struck); some citizens of Assisi, Italy; several herds of contented cows. Author Noyes does not explain how the citizens of Assisi survived or who milks the cows twice daily on a depopulated planet...
...tragic literature of hindsight. In a dissection of Allied war economics ("Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat"), FORTUNE for July tots up the assets and liabilities of Britain and France and their empires, points up their strength and weakness for totalitarian war. Written before the final collapse of France, it helps explain why that collapse occurred...
...respect to the psychological war, at that time still imperfectly understood by the Allies, Munich was a climax which very nearly ruined France. That France was not immediately ruined Taylor ascribes partly to a psychological change in Daladier. He volunteers a new and, he believes, authentic, story to explain that change: during the meeting at Munich, when Hitler sprang his famous trick-new demands even more severe than those the British and French had already rejected at Godesberg-Daladier completely lost his temper, stalked out of the room and slammed the door...