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Once the reels of saltwater drag racing are out of the way (PT 109 wins the race, but smashes into the dock when Cowboy Kennedy slams the engines into reverse at high speed and conks them out), the film takes on a measure of verve and dash. Best scene is the nighttime patrol when, running without lights, Kennedy's PT suddenly comes under the prow of a blacked-out Japanese destroyer and PT 109's plywood hull is sliced through like an orange crate. There is a moment of silence, then a crackling as the sea becomes molten...
There is one phrase in it, however, I would like to correct. Your text reads: ". . . aside from having to display some Remington cowboy art that he loathes...
...proven beneficial effect of sunning is the formation of vitamin D-something already in plentiful supply in the normal U.S. diet. In some cases, the sun also helps in clearing up acne and eczema, but excess exposure leaves the skin wrinkled, coarse and leathery like the back of a cowboy's neck. In a study directed by Dermatologist John M. Knox of Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston, the most noticeable degenerative changes in skin tissues were found to be related not to age but to the areas of greatest exposure to the elements. "The visible cutaneous changes...
...years, five months and four days. That is perhaps two years longer than some of his former colleagues in Manhattan-recalling how he stomped out of his job at the Guggenheim Museum-would have predicted. Expectably, he has stirred things up, but aside from having to display some Remington cowboy art that he loathes...
Died. Winthrop Holley Brooks, 73, former president (1935-46) and board chairman (1946-51) of sartorially impeccable Brooks Brothers, fourth successor to Founder Henry Sands Brooks, who wanted to be a cowboy but reluctantly tended the store until he sold "B.B." in 1946 to Washington's Julius Garfinckel & Co.; after a long illness; in New York City...