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...fine afternoon in December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was picked up heading westward in the South Atlantic under jib and fore-topsail, her galley table set for dinner, and not one soul aboard. Why her master, Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife, his crew and his passengers-ten in all-should have deserted their ship in midocean is still the sea's most taunting mystery...
From the stainless-steel galley they may expect first-rate meals, prepared beforehand on the ground. If a journey is made on short notice, there is enough canned food stowed in Columbine to put on elaborate meals during a globe-circling flight without an additional pinch of salt...
...deck measuring 220 ft. by 106 ft., supported by 24 steel pilings, each 300 feet long, that are rammed 150 feet into the ocean floor. It cost $1,500,000, weighs 1,600 tons (as much as a destroyer), has air-conditioned barracks, a TV set, a food-packed galley, a helicopter landing spot, and is the biggest offshore rig ever built. Said McCollum: "The cost was awful. But now that we've hit one well off it, the second and third and fourth and fifth will start making it profitable. The big fields offshore will be highly profitable...
...anything on a stage. He's not a performer. Ed just knows the trick of putting together a variety show and it's a good staple. We were after him to switch to NBC, and twice I thought we had him. We knocked him galley-west for a while with the Colgate comedy show, but we've been lousy opposite him the last two years. This season we've got Martin & Lewis. He can be taken...
...loss of his eye are enough to shatter cliffs; the immortal and immoral Circe (also played by Silvana Mangano) can call up tempests or turn men into porkers with equal ease. The screen writers have added one imaginative touch to the incident of the Sirens' rock: as his galley is rowed past that bone-littered shore. Ulysses, bound to the mainmast, is driven to frantic despair by the pleading voices of his wife and son, crying to him that he must not desert them any longer...