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...heroic Water Front Fighters the mobilized men will be used to speed up transport on Russia's inland waterways, now ice-free for the short, hectic summer season (May through August). According to the Commissariat of Labor 71,000,000 tons more freight must be carried by the rivers this year than last, an increase...
...Obviously a memorial to men who died for a cause is meaningless for that purpose if it includes those who died for a different or contrary cause. The same question has risen about Memorial Hall, dedicated to Harvard men who died for the Union. Confederate soldiers were no less heroic and conselentious but they fought for a different cause...
...public utilitarian, he had just begun to fashion the Second Greatest Steel Company. He had also turned to the rubber-tire business and, as greatest stockholder in the greatest rubber companies, he was about to bring order into an often chaotic industry. Furthermore, his financial plans were given a heroic cast because, through them, he felt he was bringing to the Middle West its just share of the control of American Industry...
...than its technique and it is the spirit of All Quiet on the Western Front that animates this little war story. Three years ago war would have been glorified in such a piece of cinema trade-goods as this, even if it were glorified only as a background for heroic actions; now war is presented simply to be pilloried. The framework-four men assigned to hold the enemy in a beleaguered post while the main body of troops retires-has possibilities. Each man, faced with almost certain death, tells how he came to go to war. But things get started...
...Atwill). A swift chain of circumstance compels Mr. Atwill to assume the role of defendant. During his trial, which is accompanied by some adroit British sarcasm from the bench, he begins to crack. Harried by the King's Counsel, who patiently sets his trap and then springs it with heroic crescendo, Actor Atwill breaks down, screams: "I did it! I did it! I did it!" This part of the play is done so well that spectators almost forget that Mr. Atwill still has three scenes left in which to prove himself innocent. Kay Strozzi (real name Strotz, sister of President...