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Sakhalin Island, half Russian and half Japanese, is poised like a blockbuster at the head of the Japanese archipelago. Last week the bleak, sparsely peopled island was the subject of a sudden blaze of Soviet publicity. Without exception, every Moscow morning newspaper published a two-column letter from the workers of Russian Sakhalin, thanking Premier Joseph Stalin for their liberation from the "horrors" of Japanese occupation 20 years ago. They promised: "We shall not relax our efforts one minute ... to bolster our defenses." The letter was also read in full by the Moscow radio...
...Hirohito was Japan. In him was embodied the total enemy. He was the Japanese national mind with all its paradoxes-reeking savagery and sensitivity to beauty, frantic fanaticism and patient obedience to authority, brittle rituals and gross vices, habitual discipline and berserk outbursts, obsession with its divine mission and sudden obsession with worldly power...
...Snatcher shows a humane sincerity and a devotion to good cinema unfortunately rather rare in U.S. movies. In this case, however, much of the picture is more literary than lively and neglects its crass possibilities as melodrama. The exceptions provide an anthology of eminently nasty creeps and jolts. The sudden snort of a horse is timed to scare the daylights out of you; there is a grisly shot of Lugosi's slaughtered head, distorted beneath brine ; and the last passage in the picture is as all-out, hair-raising a climax to a horror film as you are ever...
...unexpected move which startled the College authorities late last night, the editors of the Harvard CRIMSON yesterday announced that in a sudden decision to lighten the administrative load upon the staff they had sold all the tickets for the 1948 Jubilee to a third party...
Neither Bob Nathan, nor anyone else in WPB or the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, intends to short-change the armed services. But the sudden cutback in planes has made both WPB and OWMR wary. From now on, Army demands will be currycombed as never before. Said one OWMRster: "If just one kid is killed in the Pacific for lack of any weapon, then we've failed in our jobs. But we don't see any sense in arming every doughfoot with five machine guns if he can shoot only one. That might wreck our chances...