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...into the Korean war, he promptly reenlisted in the Marines. Since the corps has a rule against sending men with more than two Purple Hearts into combat, Ireland needed special authorization to get into a front-line unit. The word came down from the Marines' commandant, General Clifton B. Gates: "If the sergeant wants to fight, let him fight...
...Friendly Motorist. Near Clifton, N.J., when another car forced his auto off the road, Ernest Bale, 19, walked over to the offending driver, who slowly raised a small chemical fire extinguisher, squirted Bale in the face, and drove off without a word...
...modern maritime disasters: the sinking of R.M.S. Titanic on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in 1912, with a loss of 1,513 lives. Around this celebrated tragedy, Titanic weaves a less than epic story that involves an assortment of fictional shipboard characters: a middle-aged couple (Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck) fighting over the upbringing of their children; a collegian (Robert Wagner) in love with the daughter (Audrey Dalton); an unfrocked priest (Richard Basehart), a wealthy, wisecracking American widow (Thelma Ritter...
Though glossily put together and smoothly acted (particularly by Clifton Webb as a tart-tongued socialite), these melodramatic vignettes are merely a ripple on the picture's main theme: the sinking of an ocean liner. Unfortunately, too much time is spent on contrived fiction, too little on dramatic fact...
...Teachers: Meet the Press, What's My Line?, Clifton Utley...