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Keep It Low. Much has been made of Intrepid's second rudder, which is actually a "trim tab," similar to an aileron on an airplane and is designed to increase her speed to windward besides making her more maneuverable. A second innovation is her skeg, or "kicker," an extension...
Died. Basil Rathbone, 75, Hollywood's paragon of British urbanity, a rakish, aquiline-nosed immigrant from the London stage who menaced, mocked and often sleuthed his way through more than 100 pictures, including 16 as a resonant Sherlock Holmes, after which he deserted Baker Street for a versatile career...
"Just give me a week's time - one week,"Mayor Frank Sedita told a delegation of Negro youths. "Give me a chance to get the message across. I will tell them that your grievances are just and that we'd better get some employ- ment," It was too...
Lizards & "Wurleys." The flat-nosed Aborigine, with his receding forehead and his skin burned bluish black by the sun, may be slow to respond to such unaccustomed attention. He is unrelated to any of the world's three major races. Some anthropologists, noting that his skullcap is much thicker...
The War Wagon. Out of the West he jogs, the familiar bleached red shirt and wide-brimmed hat announcing the arrival of John Wayne in his 162nd film. As inevitable as death and Texas, Wayne again plays a hard-nosed, soft-spoken loner-a once-wealthy rancher whose gold-filled...