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Objective, Burma! (Warners) is a practically book-length (2 hr. 22 min.) tribute to the U.S. paratroops. At the rate Errol Flynn & Co. knock off the Japanese, it may make you wonder why there is any good reason for the war to outlast next weekend. On the other hand, you may be too excited to bother with such thoughts...
Some three dozen paratroopers, led by Major Flynn, are dropped in the jungle to find an enemy radar station whose destruction will aid the airborne reinvasion of Burma. They succeed almost too glibly, liquidating Japs so thoroughly that not one survives to shoot back, or even squirm. After blowing up the station, they get to a flight strip in plenty of time to be picked up by U.S. transports. But when a Jap force keeps the transports from landing, their anabasis begins. They are now faced with a march through some 150 miles of steep-slanted, many-rivered jungle, slithering...
...President's personal entourage included his physician and aides, Press Secretary Steve Early, Daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, and Bronx Democratic Boss Ed Flynn who, the White House was quick to announce, "went along as an old friend and took no part in the conferences...
...Garate, who played seven seasons in Shanghai before the war. The box-office star is Enrique ("Superman") Vallejo, a none-too-agile, 191-lb. Cuban who whips the ball with terrific force. Win, lose or draw, he is billed - and viewed by many female fans - as the Errol Flynn of jai alai...
...second team broke a 14 to 14 half-time tie to ring up the win. Left forward Boyce led the winners with ten markers, while Francke and Flynn, at center and the other forward registered seven and six respectively. The B team will not be with the Varsity when it travels to Melville, Rhode Island, to meet the Metor Torpedo Boat S.T.C. tomorrow...