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...successful than the average iceberg. He combed the shipyards of Europe trying to find the chief prop for a new film called The Last Voyage, gave up in discouragement and sailed for home. At sea a day or so later, he looked over the water and saw a twin-stack, 44,000-ton liner slicing her way west at 23 knots. "That's the one," cried Stone. "I want...
...strays in a Conrad novel-English girls from Kobe, White Russians, Poles, wives of U.S. marines, a French judo expert-had the maritime of their lives and drew $10 a day. As the cameras rolled, Realist Stone pushed his 101 performers (including George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack) through the paces of disaster. A grand piano plunged into the ship's chapel through a 12-ft. hole in the deck of the grand salon; Actress Dorothy Malone was trapped between sheets of boiler plate in a cabin awash with icy brine. Explosions were...
Frank Yeomans of Harvard, Dave Bain and Steve Snyder of Yale should make short work of the sprints--although Cambridge's Dewo Roberts has a 9.8 100 to his credit. The 440 may turn into a battle between two Americans, Harvard captain Albie Gordon and Yale sophomore Jim Stack. The Crimson's Joel Landau is favored in the high hurdles over Rex Van Rossum of Oxford, and either Landau or Yale's Jay Luck should take the lows. The 4 x 110 relay should go to the Americans. Either Blodgett or Yale freshman Oakley Andrews should easily win the pole...
...also brought into the Navy the best electronic bookkeeping system of all the services, bucked the admirals to inaugurate a program under which talented but untrained enlisted men now take science courses at schools such as Caltech and M.I.T. Though a devoted Eisenhower team player, Gates publicly blew his stack against Ike's Defense Department reorganization plan ("The Secretary of Defense has all the authority he needs"), cannonaded against interservice bickerings ("The Secretary of Defense continues to struggle handicapped by traditionally divided service opinions"). Anxious to return to his gold-plated Drexel investment job, Gates early this year resigned...
Crimson cptain Albie Gordon put the mile relay quartet in the finals with a blistering 47.5 anchor leg that brought the team from fifth to third. In the finals, he overhauled Yale's Jim Stack, to take fifth, topping a day of futility for the Bulldogs and giving the varsity its final point of the afternoon...