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...Gotta Be This or That. Hearst trotted out veteran Pamphleteer John T. Flynn (Country Squire in the White House) for more of the same: "The late President kept his commanders in a state of mystification and apprehension as he played with the great game of war behind their backs...
Side by side, on Page One of the Hearst press, one story had Churchill trying to keep the U.S. out of war, and a John T. Flynn piece saying that Churchill and Roosevelt had conspired to get the U.S. in. Manhattan dailies could not agree whether the Jap codes gave us a nine-day tipoff on Pearl Harbor (Daily News), 15 days (Mirror), or six months (Times...
Dick Harlow will not find his team at peak strength for the encounter, for Leo Flynn, sparkplug of the Cantabs' offense all season until his injury in the Merchant Marine game, will see little if any action in the Bowl. With his leg in almost perfect shape for the final contest this week, he pulled the tendon once again in a practice session Wednesday. Right end Bob-Champion is also a doubtful starter, but the chances are that he will see considerably more action than will Flynn...
MOST SECRET - Nevil Shute - Morrow ($2.50). This slickly competent wartime adventure story is put together on such sound box-office principles that it might do as a cinema vehicle for Errol Flynn. It has all the required ingredients : commando raid, secret agent, love interest, a London blitz, shiny-eyed self-sacrifice, and a gallant English officer who wants to kill Germans because a bomb's blast killed his pet rabbit, Geoffrey. The publishers boast that three of British naval-officer-novelist Shute's last five books (Ordeal, Pied Piper, Pastoral) have been selected by "major book clubs...