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...hours the sound truck howled Japanese into the silent bamboo and sword grass of southern Guam's jungle. Suddenly from the green wall emerged a chubby, medium-sized young man, blinking in the sun. While U.S. officers watched, the Jap trudged up the hill and saluted. Ten months after the U.S. recapture of Guam, the last Japanese officer was willing to talk surrender...
...preparing variations on their attack pattern. Tons of British pathfinder bombs had been shipped to the Marianas and would soon permit the 21st Bomber Command to bomb at night with greater precision. U.S. Army officers announced that fleets of 1,000 planes would soon smite Japan. Tokyo warned its medium and small-size cities to expect the worst. The big bombers were not the only planes that struck Japan. Kyushu Island, whence enemy planes attack Okinawa, was worked over for several days by U.S. fighters from carrier decks and land bases...
Instead of treating our enemies too kindly or too harshly, let's hit a medium between these two extremes that is firm enough to let them know who is boss, but not so obdurate that they will eventually rise against their tormentors. Let's be men, but let's not try to be supermen...
Miss Phillips is in dead earnest about her "personal crusade." Neither her sponsor (General Mills) nor NBC has gone out of its way to encourage her. The U.S. Treasury was once politely cool to her offer of Guiding Light as a free medium for selling war bonds. But shrewd Spinster Phillips, certain that she is on the right track, has hired a special "sociological and psychological adviser" to help her carry...
Donald Ogden Stewart, who did "The Philadelphia Story," was the obvious choice for screen-play duties, and he has done what most screen-writers are afraid to do: on celluloid, "Without Love" is not just a photographic reproduction of a stage play. Advantage is made of the medium to an enormously greater extent than in, say, "Claudia." Which is as it should...