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This havoc was created not by a demolition squad, but by three nine-year-old boys. On a Sunday afternoon they broke into Brooklyn's Public School 173 by cutting a window screen, rampaged until suppertime. When the janitor arrived next morning, he found windows shattered, pictures torn, walls smeared, light bulbs smashed, desks and chairs ripped apart, a grand piano stripped of keys and strings, the remnants of two bonfires, the leavings of crackers and jam in a domestic science kitchen, a total of 21 classrooms in shambles. The damage-which added...
Lesson Learned. He had telegraphed his punch for weeks, for three days had stoked a 66-mile smoke screen in hundreds of chemical generators strung along the river. The Germans had advertised their anticipation of airborne drops. But when they were made, German reaction was surprisingly light. One reason: the enemy had expected the drops farther east. Cautious Monty profited by the Arnhem lesson. This time the First Allied Airborne Army chuted to within artillery range of the ground forces...
Insult to Injury. Though the enemy refused to fight back with his surface ships, he was as eager as ever with his planes. Reinforcements staged from northern fields lashed again & again at Mitscher's carriers and their screen. One U.S. ship was seriously damaged. In two flays, over land and sea, 281 Jap planes were shot out of the air, 275 were destroyed on the ground and 175 more were crippled...
...drama-may mystify the American cinemaddict, but the leisure is put to such good use that the chances are it will charm him instead. For The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is an uncommonly rich and pleasant study in character, both human and national. It brings to the screen the greatest English character since Pickwick: Cartoonist David Low's walrus-whiskered epitome of unenlightened self-interest...
...famed cartoons, Blimp acts out in black & white, by one class and political reflex after another, the whole tragicomic history of a special kind of British stupidity. The screen's version of Blimp, in rosy Technicolor, is not a Low specimen of humanity at all, but one long apologia for the better side of the Low character. Watching on the screen how the old man got that way, you would never suspect that the Colonel and his kind had anything to do with bringing on the Second World War. Even insofar as Blimp is shown to be old-fashioned...