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...soon) and Woodring (long overdue to go); Assistant Secretary of War Johnson (whose brash, abrasive voice crying in the wilderness for men & arms last year was too loud for his own, the Army's and the country's comfort); Chief of Naval Operations Harold R. Stark, Chief of Staff...
...nearly as successful as the best-selling novel. And the credit is not all Steinbeck's. Much lies with producer Zanuck, who was willing to pour money into a social document of this sort, gambling on its box office appeal; with director John Ford, whose skill in recreating the stark reality of Steinbeck's situations and in preserving variety where repitition would have been easy, has made of the film more than the vehicle for a message; and with the actors--especially Jane Darwell, Ma Joad--whose performances are well-nigh jawless...
...clear up any implication that the Navy had not been frank with Congress, the Senate Naval Affairs Committee last week had up Secretary Charles Edison. Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Operations, had lately declared his unremitting faith in the battleship over aircraft, urged Congress to steam ahead with battleship construction. But Secretary Edison had announced last fortnight that aircraft had a "temporary advantage over ships," had said the Navy would have to revise its ship designs. Last week Mr. Edison did a neat straddle. Said he: ". . . Battleships were, are and will be for many years the backbone...
...build all these war and merchant ships, the U. S. has eight Navy yards (which do half the Navy's building) and 22 private yards with 83 ocean ways. None of them is idle today. Fortnight ago Admiral Stark, asking a Senate Committee for more Navy money, pointed to strained shipbuilding capacity and proposed to add more. But the private shipbuilders, busy as they are, pointed to 37 partially dismantled ways which can be restored to use if their schedules need speeding...
...while. He juggles them from instrument to instrument, combining them in a variety of ways. Gradually they are linked together to form an extended and coherent theme. If one sees in this only orchestral splinters in a disconnected sequence, then a Sibelius symphony may be "fjord-like," or "stark," or whatever adjective the Sibelius cultists favor most. But if one's mind follows the organic growth of this material, one perceives that it is incomparably warm and rich, and the product of a vital poetic imagination...