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Below decks, the situation was hideous. Buttoned up for battle, the LSMR became as breathless as a steam room. Temperatures often hit 140°, posing a serious hazard of debilitation among the crew and a downright perilous situation in the magazines. Sailors slept face to foot in cramped, fetid racks of three, and life was a reasonable approximation of a Roman galley. But all that has changed. Last week, on the fir-fringed shore of Puget Sound, the Navy proudly unveiled the IFS- I (Inshore Fire Support Ship), a ship that combines all the striking power of its ancestor...
...name. He likes nothing better than an oldfashioned, razzle-dazzle political campaign, and he campaigns every year all year round. His harried staffers estimate that when he is in good form, the governor makes more than 30 speeches a month; during active campaigns, his monthly par rises to a breathless 250 orations. In the 19 months since October 1953, when he first sat down in the governor's green leather chair, Knight has traveled 95,000 miles around the state and delivered himself of 1,500-speeches. Goodie can think of only three towns in all of California where...
...cities: "Meeting so many generals, admirals and secretaries is a little overpowering for a girl." But her burble with the Brass was only one of the quick trips through which Arlene whirled her Home audience (weekdays, 11 a.m., NBC) in a five-day visit to Washington. There were breathless stops at all the tourist musts-the Lincoln Memorial, Supreme Court, Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Every few minutes, up to eight times an hour, reverence for the nation's shrines had somehow to be combined with the bread-and-butter necessity...
...haphazard. Comic Henry Morgan, acting as co-master of ceremonies, behaved as if he had hardly bothered to learn his cues, let alone his gags; his partner, British Actor Cyril (Peter Pan) Ritchard, ran his oh-so-English witticisms into the ground. The choreography was raggedly routine, the chorus breathless in its singing. The TV camera seemed to add unbecoming extra poundage to plumpish Martha Wright, singing I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy. Televised in black and white, no matter how magnified the screen, Album became a blurry, uneven adaptation of TV's own Toast...
...waif trapped behind the narrow bars of parental thou-shalt-nots. At novel's end, with Fatuncle's help, she has flown the coop to become a woman-her own woman. Author Hallinan has written a fine and pleasing novel, even if her prose is occasionally more breathless than deathless...