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Death, as it must to all men, came in a bursting bomb to a king of whom most people had never heard. Through London, last fortnight, news finally reached the world that King John Sydney Clunies-Ross IV of the Cocos Islands* had died last August, of shock, following a Japanese air raid...
...this drawing-room comedy that wanders so far from the drawing room, Katherine Hepburn, in her original role, is ever the actress, never a "star." Spencer Tracy, whom she marries without love and in haste, to succumb at leisure, is ever Spencer Tracy: a big teddy-bear shock-absorber in whose farm-boy's mouth the clever lines seem sometimes out of place...
While we delay, the Nazis have time to organize their underground. The first shock of defeat is wearing off and eventually the Germans are bound to realize what defeat means to them as a nation. When that realization comes, we can expect more signs of action...
Still recovering from the shock of having no report due after last week-end, we march fearlessly forward in our expose of the lives and loves (questionable) of the Mid-off boys...
...German was reserved the hollow feeling of shock, when the Allies landed in North Africa, in Sicily, in Italy, in Normandy, in southern France, on the east bank of the Rhine. This time the Germans felt the false hopes of abortive offensives, Atlantic Walls and secret weapons-and still hollower feelings after the fall of Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Rome; Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Bucharest; Paris, Marseilles, Antwerp; Riga, Sofia, Warsaw, Budapest; Aachen and Cracow; Frankfurt and Danzig; Essen and Vienna; Magdeburg and Nürenberg; Bremen, Milan, Munich, Berlin...