Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Knowing your interest in the human interest behind the news, I thought you would be interested in hearing about the experiences of a registrar for the national defense selective training project...
...only one of the 16 million human organisms who happened to be thrown by the progeniting hands of God into these "seven thousand emeralds" that decorate the western brim of the greatest oceanic basin. Obscure and insignificant as I am, I am doubtless conveying what practically every one of the 16 million Filipinos are saying, and would say, if allowed the chance to explode their hearts' content. These 16 million suntanned Brownies are not a specimen of a species hypothesized to be devoid of the psychology-discovered instinct of self-preservation. And in this world of Blitzkriegs; of Hurricanes...
...been successfully followed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; it was traditional on some of the best papers of pre-Hitler Europe. It bolsters newspapermen's morale by giving them their say in the paper's policy, and rises the status of editorial writers from stooges to thinking human begins. However, it is likely to throw the publishers into the ghastly predicament of profiting from a cause in which they don't believe; and rather than betray their principles, they continue to have their Virginio Gaydas root for the losing candidate. The public goodnaturedly ignores their cataclysmic appeals and sticks...
...those interested in statistics, his mouth has stretched exactly one-eighth of an inch, which only makes his smile the more enticing and allows him to shovel down ham, doughnuts, milk and pie in an increasing ratio throughout the play. Between these two processes, Joe E. is as human, lovable and Laughable as ever...
...script is rather incpt patchwork, composed of three O'Ncill plays and a war background to fill the gaps. The action takes place aboard a British tramp steamer and in wet harbor streets infested with demi-monde and cops. All kinds of human fates are thrown together on the S.S. Glencairn, drifting about helplessly on the long voyage that seldom ends at home. John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, and Ian Hunter are three of the ragged, whisky-minded seafarers whose whole characters are unfolded step by step. There is frustration in all of them, the frustration that drove them...