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...week reversed its No. 1 rule for fighting incendiaries, after new experiments at the Army's Civilian Protection School (in Maryland). Hitherto air-raid wardens and firefighters have been warned again & again that a solid stream of water played on an incendiary will produce a blinding explosion and sudden death...
...Bumbling Earl Godwin's sudden emergence as one of radio's high-priced newsmen is a triumph for corn. His reports from Washington for NBC have always sounded as if they were delivered from a cracker barrel near the stove in the general store. He used to end a local broadcast with a "God bless you one and all." Once, he omitted the tag line and received ten indignant letters from as many old ladies. Washington newsmen believe that it was Henry Ford himself who picked Godwin's raspy drawl to supplant William J. Cameron (TIME...
Conspiracy. Three days later the U.S. got a sudden reminder of its careless prewar past, when the Bund was only a joke. In the tiny fishing village of Boca del Rio, six miles south of Mexico's steamy Vera Cruz, Mexican police nabbed swarthy Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, onetime leader of the German-American Bund, where he succeeded Fritz Kuhn. Wilhelm Kunze had lived quietly in a small hotel, had bought a launch for an escape by sea. Hustled back to the U.S., he awaits trial on a charge of having conspired to send military information to Germany and Japan...
...will have to begin soon. South of Kharkov, Bock had plowed deep into the Russian lines. In Egypt the British faced Rommel with scanty forces and equipment; their loss at Tobruk (Axis version) was 33,000 prisoners, more than 100 tanks. In Rommel's sudden victory Germany could see the start of a great pincer operation...
Tired from overwork and wary of hard-driving Director Wyler, Pidgeon agreed to play Mr. Miniver, with reservations. Before starting he sat on the set for a few days, watched Wyler shoot one apparently perfect take after another. "But on the 18th take," says Pidgeon, "I suddenly knew about Wyler. It was perfect, but it hit you in the pit of the stomach like a sudden, perfect chord of music. It made all those perfect-looking previous takes look like hell." When the picture was finished, he said: "I left the screening of Miniver trying to remember which...