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...true measure of Britain's determination to knock out Italy was not seen until last week when that taciturn Scot, Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, took his Eastern Mediterranean Fleet on a thoroughgoing sweep of Mare Nostrum (the R. N. calls it "Cunningham's Pond"). All around the eastern circuit went Sir Andrew, even loitering for a while off Pantelleria (between Sicily and Africa) to try to lure forth the Italian Fleet. When it did not come, Sir Andrew ordered full steam for the Gulf of Taranto, in the Italian instep between the Calabrian toe and the heel...
...never conscious. Things that have lived were seldom planned that way. If you follow that line, you're on the wrong track. We don't even let the word 'art' be used around the studio. If anyone begins to get arty, we knock them down. What we strive for is entertainment...
Like most superathletes, Terrible Tommy is always on the spot. Just as baseball fans expected Babe Ruth to hit a home run every time he went to bat and fight fans expect Joe Louis to knock out every opponent in one minute flat, football fans want Harmon to run 95 yards at least once in every game. In Michigan's first game of the season (against California), Harmon ran back the opening kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown, wriggled 72 yards for another, 86 for a third. Against Michigan State and Harvard he was less spectacular...
...British from Singapore-and force a Borneo landing, would even then have only a fair start to conquest of the Indies. And if the U. S. took a hand the Japanese would also have to take the U. S. base at Cavite, reduce its island fortress at Corregidor, knock out 11,000 U. S. Regulars and 20,000 soldiers of General Douglas MacArthur's new native army...
Flowing Gold (Warner Bros.) opens with Johnny Blake (John Garfield) moodily waiting in line for a job with a handful of other oil-field "roughnecks." Soon a stranger justifiably snorts: "Boy, you sure got a chip on your shoulder," and Johnny snarls: "Want to try and knock it off?" From then on it is merely a question of waiting to see who hits whom with what...