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...JAPAN WAS STRONG - John Patric - Doubleday, Doran...
...economy-minded journalist, John Patric, had an even better idea. He had lived in China, knew that Chinese doctors were so short of gauze that they were using paper as a substitute. He visited a nearby plant, persuaded its officials that soft bundles of stockings would make good packing for planes, would serve a useful purpose at the other end of the line...
Laying their heads together, Dr. Ross, Patric and Dr. Ting D. Lee, local head of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, drafted a circular to be packed with every 25 pairs of stockings. Written in Chinese and illustrated with drawings and photographs (see cut), it showed how to apply silk-stocking bandages...
...granddaughter (Olivia de Havilland), so bored with mercenary suitors that she longs to meet a man who hates her; a livewire pressagent (Errol Flynn), who organizes a newspaper campaign to destroy the millionaire's good name, hoping thus to get hired to restore it; a dim-witted publisher (Patric Knowles) and his highly intelligent star reporter (Rosalind Russell), who are in love respectively with the heiress and the pressagent. Their antics-when the millionaire turns his great Danes loose on the pressagent, when the pressagent retaliates by buttering the tracks of the toy railroad, when a sleepy justice...
...restored to comedy) he is a lovable fraud, fond of voicing his feelings in the ringing phrases of Shakespeare and the once-aboard-the-lugger playwrights. To star-struck Olivia de Havilland he is unutterably wonderful. When Olivia's infatuation blinds her to the worth of her suitor (Patric Knowles), Idol Howard decently decides to disillusion her. The plan for such a procedure, his dresser (Eric Blore) agrees, is neatly outlined in one of his early triumphs. The Loving Triangle. But Olivia's adoration thrives on the boorish behavior prescribed by The Loving Triangle, grows to gooey consistency...