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Their purpose, said the Yenan radio, was to promote the national war effort against Japan, to give vigor to the democratic groups throughout China and the "formation of a coalition government as well as the liberation of the Chinese people." The present meeting was only a preparatory committee to set the date and technical details for a full-dress conference of the people's representatives of liberated China...
Like his friends, Fitzgerald caroused freely. But unlike most of them he also produced novels and short stories with passion and vigor-just, he said, as "certain racehorses run for the pure joy of running." The product, Critic Rosenfeld points out, had a double quality. Its pictures of the period were brilliantly illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance...
Hollywood might have given fresh clarity and vigor to the familiar story of the eager, humane A.M.G. Major Joppolo, who introduced democracy to Fascist-ridden Adano, and to arrogant, bellicose General Marvin, who sent him packing for defying the General's inhumane orders. But Marvin, who appears only once, looking not unlike General George Patton, is handled with such kid-gloved tenderness that he never becomes a real, hateful antagonist. In consequence, Joppolo's zeal for spreading democracy becomes a worthy but not over-exciting crusade that lacks the dramatic conflict which would have made it exciting...
...Cover) At last the victors met the German people. Not the Nazi Party, not the horror-masters of Buchenwald and Dachau, not the General Staff and the Wehrmacht, not Krupp's and I. G. Farbenindustrie, but the people, from whom all the evil and the vigor sprang...
From London last week came news of a French attempt to solve this sere national problem. The report (which the French Ministry of Health understandably denied) : the French Government is buying ?25,000,000 worth of that restorer of physical and sexual vigor, testosterone, the male hormone (TIME, May 28). Treatment, by injection, will be voluntary, secret and free to any man under Government medical care or returning from captivity...