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...Hollywood can't be given credit for anything else, it at least deserves praise for its ability to recognize a good thing when it finds one. And when it filmed the first Dashiell Hammet "Thin Man" picture several years ago, it hit on something that is still firing away on all cylinders. "The Shadow of the Thin Man," the latest of the series, is conclusive proof that the throngs of film fans who flock to see Nick Charles solve murder after murder in his individual and somewhat alcoholic way are not going to be disappointed for a long time...
...chief base was the broad, well-docked harbor of Davao, 600 miles south of Manila. The U.S. defense force in Davao, a thin little group set there by a penny-wise and pound-foolish nation, never had a chance when the Japanese landed in the second week of the war. Since then the Jap has made Davao his own. Last week a flight of U.S. heavy bombers, probably operating from one of the Dutch bases, dropped in at Davao, saw the Allies' worst fears spelled out in ships off the coast...
Japanese troops also got ashore at three points on Minahassa, the thin, eastward-reaching upper handle of Celebes. Here the Jap came by sea and by parachute. He was already in British Sarawak, on the north coast of Borneo. Hein ter Poorten and his Army Air Force commander, thin-faced Major General L. H. van Oyen, promised that oil wells would be fired, refineries dynamited before the Jap got to them for the supplies he now needs more than anything in the world...
...Burma's west coast lies a long chain of flying fields, all the way back to Calcutta and beyond. By this route new planes were coming to be added to Burma's thin complement of bombers and U.S.-made fighters. The Allies raided Bangkok, reported they set great fires. They pounced on Jap airfields, riddling their ground establishments. In one raid near week's end, returning pilots reported they had smashed up 27 Jap planes, mostly bombers, on the ground...
...went down fighting two days later. Released last week by the Navy at Washington, it added new fuel to the imperishable flame of their heroism. It also proved that the Jap had had to pay a bitter price for the capture of the outpost and its thin line of defenders...