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...complete master of mobility, Chennault ducks and weaves with his air force until he gets at least equality in numbers in a given area, and then throws everything he has at the Japs. He stays awake nights planning new tactics, or studying combat reports to search for Jap weaknesses. The next morning he will be at his well-worn maps, talking about what he could do here & there if he had a few more planes...
Safety. In 1605 Guy Fawkes, hoping to kill James 1, stacked gunpowder in Parliament's vaulted cellar. He lost his head instead of his King. Since then, the King's way has always been prepared by a search of the cellar. Ordinarily, this is a job for the Beefeaters, who go about it in resplendent tabards of scarlet and gold...
Last week the search was conducted, and the King's safety assured, by a detail of Home Guards in drab battle dress...
...they do upset his delicious secretary (Olivia de Havilland). She, in turn, obscurely upsets her boss, who, with no time for love, undertakes a secret study of books like How To Be Happily Married. Miss de Havilland's boyfriend (Jess Barker), a smooth young attorney in search of scandal, is also interested in her boss. Investigated at long last by the Senate, Planeman Tufts is saved only by Miss de Havilland's impetuous glorification, before the Committee, of Men Who Get Things Done. Amidst the dramatic moments is a lighter passage which depicts the romantic leads running hogwild...
Activity of the Dramatic Society has been stimulated by the registration of 50 candidates last night at a meeting behind the Grant Study. A search is under way for a new play, to be produced about the beginning of February, in collaboration with Beaver Country Day, a girl's school in Brookline with special dramatic facilities...