Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Morgan (John Garfield), a rough & ready veteran of PT boats, scrounges a living for his wife (Phyllis Thaxter) and two daughters by chartering his cruiser for fishing trips. Apart from his boat (which is not paid up) and a talent for spotting marlin half a mile off, he has nothing "to peddle but guts." When a client runs out on his bill, leaving Morgan broke in a Mexican port, he starts peddling guts...
Through a crooked shyster (Wallace Ford), he makes a deal with a smuggler to carry eight Chinese into the U.S., runs into a double cross that forces him to kill the smuggler and dump his passengers onto a Mexican beach. Then Morgan's troubles multiply until they drive him into a much riskier scheme: to pilot a getaway boat for four ruthless holdup men and kill them for the reward money before they can fulfill their plain intention of murdering...
Died. Harcourt Alexander Morgan, 82, Canadian-born agricultural entomologist, who became president of the University of Tennessee (1919-33), member of the Tennessee Valley Authority's original three-man board, later its chairman* (1938-41); in Belfast, Tenn...
...Succeeding Arthur Ernest Morgan, also a member of TVA's original board, and its first chairman...
...them in heroic doses: Hero Ross Pary isn't quality in his home town of Natchez, Miss., but he returns there in 1850 with an Oxford education, a face "as clean-cut as a medallion," eyes "somber and brooding" and "plaid trousers, clinging to his well-turned legs." Morgan Brittany, a rich planter's wife, sees him and feels "warm all over-warm and good." Ross makes other women feel good too, and much of Floodtide seems designed to set female readers dreaming of Ross and of how much better they could handle him than the women...