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Three Days of Golf. The heavy cruiser nosed up to Baker Dock in Pearl Harbor. Ike stood in the Hawaiian sunshine on the main deck. Tanned and fit, he came ashore to a rousing welcome, complete with honor guard, hula dancers, a lei of red carnations, and a motorcade tour of Honolulu...
...hardy tinkers and tailors they were. For the producers of this movie were obviously concerned lest they shatter any primary school images. So they have handled the Pilgrims carefully. The only boorish character on Mayflower is the only non-Pilgrim, the captain (Spencer Tracy), who strides across his poop deck, cursing love and friendship in exaggerated tones, and carrying the whole burden of godlessness, until the others finally remake him into a good...
Arresting gear-wire cables snagged by a long hook dangling from a plane's tail-will be mounted across the landing flight path, as usual. But the new, angled deck* will not need the wire barrier that once cut across the Antietam to keep a bad landing from becoming a disaster. Without that barrier, planes that missed the arresting gear were almost certain to damage others on the deck. Now, a pilot who overshoots the mark will have a chance to go around again. He can drag low across the landing area without crashing into the wings of parked...
...Navy calls it a "canted" deck; the British, with a greater respect for the language, call it an "angled" deck...
...historical gap, has drawn on what studio publicists call new, revealing research as well as on Ernest Gebler's imaginative 1950 novel and on some pure invention by Screenwriter Helen Deutsch. The resulting movie pictures the Atlantic crossing of the Pilgrim Fathers as a combination of storms above deck and stormy passions below deck...