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...cold brew, downed two bottles while getting his change. Former teammates remember being unable to get into his hotel room because he had stuffed towels under the door, turned on the shower's hot water full blast, and while resting on his bed, converted the place into a steam bath in an effort to sweat off a few of his 250 lbs. But the amiable giant who furnishes the stuff for such stories is no modern Babe Ruth: he is Stephen Thomas Bilko, 31, one of major-league baseball's most fascinating flops...
...dithering secretary (Wilfrid Hyde White), a nefarious newsman (Herbert Lorn), two stolid Sikhs attached to primordial machine guns, a charming person (I.S. Johar) who runs locomotives, and an unspeakable person (Eugene Deckers) who runs guns. They all pile into an ancient passenger car drawn by a wondrously dilapidated steam engine called "Victoria"-apparently because it was built in the year (1819) of Her Majesty's birth-and go barreling through the enemy barricades. The plot is as old as Noah but as lively as it ever was, and if the British keep on like this, they might well make...
...want me to work for you, just let me know and I'll make other arrangements." Other arrangements were never necessary. But inevitably, time itself stranded Reutlinger in journalism's past. Raised to managing editor in 1951, he lost some of the old steam, began to show uncharacteristic flashes of temperance...
...aboard the Navy's two Polaris submarines, listed 2^ degrees to starboard. Deep below the ship's afterdeck, a tube holding a Polaris missile was tilted another seven degrees to guarantee that the missile would fire away from the ship. Suddenly, amid a great puff of white steam formed by compressed air, the sleek, 28-ft. missile whooshed 70 ft. into the dark sky, seemed to hang motionless for an instant, then ignited in a blinding white flash and roared 800 miles down the Caribbean range...
...shipyards of Queens Island, Belfast last week, joiners, painters, decorators and electricians were swarming over the newly launched, most luxurious superliner of Britain's maritime fleet. It is the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co.'s 45,000-ton, $42 million superliner, Canberra. Sailing for P. & O., which coined the word "posh,"-the 740-ft. Canberra will be one of the poshest ships afloat, with a cruising speed of 27½ knots, air conditioning throughout, and closed-circuit television for passengers while the ship is at sea. Designed with an aluminum superstructure to save weight, and engines...