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...real joke about that is that Disney's awards have always been "Special Awards." This puts him in the same weird position as was Olivier in 1946 when he was given a "Special Award" for "Henry V" and looked around to find himself in the same company with Claude Jarman, Jr., Margaret O'Brien, and Charlie McCarthy, to mention some other recipients of the "Special Awards...
...Comes Up (MGM) is an unsuccessful attempt, in Technicolor, to recapture the magic formula which made a hit of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling (TIME, Jan. 13, 1947). The story was written by Novelist Rawlings, the lead is again played by Claude Jarman Jr. and Lassie is in the cast to handle the heart tugs supplied by a fawn in the first picture. The second venture, obviously intended to be a natural, is as unnatural as a purple zebra...
...stffry of a widowed concert singer (Jeanette MacDonald) who sees her only son hit and killed by a truck, but the sentiment sours when the scripters make Jeanette a self-centered, self-pitying woman. There is also some promise in the relationship between the singer and an orphan boy (Jarman) whom she meets in the Carolina Mountains. But the association never quite comes off. For one thing, young Jarman is uncomfortably overgrown and incurably quaint, and he is pictured as a ninny. Perhaps the only character to live up to expectations is the general storekeeper (Percy Kilbride). Lassie also makes...
Smith sent another Army officer, Major General Sanderford Jarman, to see the 27th's Ralph Smith. Jarman reported back the Army commander's admission: "If he didn't take his division forward tomorrow, he should be relieved." Next morning, the division did not budge. "In this context of all-round poor performance by the 27th Division," Howlin' Mad wrote, he took map in hand and went to see the overall operation commander, Admiral Raymond Spruance. He told him: "Ralph Smith has demonstrated that he lacks aggressive spirit and his division is slowing down our advance...
...Lack of Spirit." To prove its point, the Army unlocked long-secret files. But some of the Army's own testimony went far to corroborate Howlin' Mad. After relieving Smith, General Jarman reported simply: "The problem . . . was to get the 27th to advance." In an official memo on the conduct of the 27th, Jarman explained: "I have noted ... a lack of offensive spirit ... A battalion will run into one machine gun and be held up for several hours." Other Army officers reported "fainthearted" attacks, noted "a lack of spirit in moving forward...