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...passenger list also included handsome young Cooper John Alden (Van Johnson) and baby-faced Priscilla Mullins (Dawn Addams). As for Captain Myles Standish (Noel Drayton), the picture portrays him as a happily married man who never courted Priscilla at all. With a shortage of food and water, but not of romance, the Mayflower finally makes Provincetown...
...ever set sail. Aboard is a young cooper named John Alden (played by Van Johnson), who keeps the passengers' whisky and beer barrels in repair. Captain Myles Standish is below-decks most of the time; Researcher Deutsch decided that Standish was already married and probably not courting Priscilla Mullins...
...absolutely factual history, but Producer Schary hopes the film will be "a contribution to the American idea . . ." In Massachusetts, Henry Hornblower, president of Plimoth Plantation, Inc., a research group consulted by Scripter Deutsch, does not yet know the worst. "I suppose," says he, "that the movie will show Priscilla spinning. There is no evidence that a spinning wheel was brought over on the Mayflower...
Back from the NATO meetings in Rome, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace arrived at Washington's National Airport, where a bright-eyed young lady gave photographers the chance to record a candid study in the technique of homecoming welcome. With happy six-year-old abandon, Priscilla Pace catapulted to the arms of her father, who welcomed the assault with obvious pleasure. At week's end Pace left his official problems long enough to go on another trip, this time to join the gold braid section in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, where he watched Navy trounce Army...
Sherman, son of a New Hampshire schoolmaster, came from a family of fighters; the Shermans, tracing their descent back to John and Priscilla Alden, fought with the colonists against the Dutch, went with Benedict Arnold to Quebec. A pleasant, neat man with an air of cool detachment, Forrest Sherman lacked the flamboyant quality that makes for a great leader of men. But he was a great planner, a great negotiator "You can't get good marks if you're popular," he once told his sister. He had few close friends, but his admirers were legion...