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...knock China out of the war, and yet the campaign seemed, at least to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's plane-blind forces, unclear and not yet full-blown. It looked as if the Japanese Navy were re-forming for another reach at Australia's screen, but the concentration was not yet completed. There was renewed activity in the Mediterranean, but it was not clear whether either side would dare to start anything in the face of summer's dizzying heat...
Watching Tojo. But from the north more menacing news sifted down into Sydney's bars and restaurants. Back of his screen of islands the Jap was massing again, at Rabaul in New Britain, at Lae and Salamaua on the east coast of New Guinea, and at more remote points in the Indies. Douglas MacArthur's airmen, after a full share with the Navy in the Battle of the Coral Sea, went back to work on the Jap's hideouts. They fired buildings and planes at Lae, hit heavily at Rabaul, ranged 700 miles north...
...battle was divided into three phases, and in all three the striking force of U.S. aircraft, both Army & Navy, was predominant. It began on Monday, May 4, off the Solomon Islands, when a U.S. naval force jumped a light Jap force, probably a flanking screen, and hammered it hard...
...superficiality that haunts the American theatre to this day, had a very apt pupil in Cecil B. DeMille. The satellite moved to Hollywood to prove that any extravaganza the master had put over on the stage could be made twice as gaudy and twice as profitable on the screen. DeMille succeeded--time and again--and his latest nightmare, mercilessly entitled "Reap the Wild Wind," is now in its second week...
...long last hideousness will come into its own this Monday evening when the acute problem of whether an ugly man exists at Harvard will be settled for all futurity by Miss Constance Moore, star of stage and screen...