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Victory at Sea (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Documentary-Midway Is East, the Japanese conquest of the Western Pacific and the Battle of Midway...
...Midway through the second several things were cleared up; Yale's running by Jerry Jones and Pete Shears was good, and the Eli line, on offense and defense was excellent...
...Mitsuo Fuchida was one of Japan's most famous flying officers of World War II. He led the first wave of bombers in the raid on Pearl Harbor, then circled high over Oahu for nearly three hours, directing the attack. He was later wounded at the Battle of Midway and spent the rest of the war as air operations officer at Japanese navy headquarters. At war's end, he went back to his farm near Osaka, sullen and bitter over Japan's defeat...
...finely tuned to their talk. "They're a kind of delicatessen nobility," says he. "I know lots of guys who talk like Two Head." Cannon knows them because he was born & raised in their midst, on Manhattan's lower West Side, still lives in a hotel midway between Broadway and Madison Square Garden. At 17, as a copy boy on the Daily News, Cannon's skill with words caught the city editor's notice. Once, when a crank invaded the city room and introduced himself as "God," Cannon answered: "Pleased to meetcha. Heard a lot aboutcha...
...days later Vishinsky got to his feet and, in a monotone, for 75 minutes accused the U.S. of "bluster, blackmail and pressure" in Korea, retold the "germ warfare" tale, and charged that U.S. "billionaires" are bent on more & more bloodshed to swell their billions. Midway through, Acheson removed his earphones for a few minutes, and some delegates began leaving...