Word: warship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of the U.S. in 1956"). F.D.R.'s letter asked consideration of a West Point appointment for the infant son of Air Corps Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr., who was shot down early in the war over the Philippines after a bombing attack on a Japanese warship. Said the White House last week: Colin P. Kelly III, 18, a student at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., has not yet decided whether he will take an appointment, although President Eisenhower is ready to follow the boy's wishes...
While her erstwhile friend, General Rafael Trujillo Jr., nonflying chief of the Dominican Republic's air force and army, whooped it up in Los Angeles Harbor with an all-night party or two aboard his one-gunned warship Angelita, fluff-tressed Cinemacaroon Kim Novak gazed dazzle-eyed at a solid, if less spectacular catch: Cancer Researcher Ernest L. Wynder, M.D. (TIME, May 5), who escorted Kim on a tour of Manhattan night life...
...even as the Navy hailed Independence as the biggest warship in the world (the liners United States and America would fit beam to beam on her flight deck), opposition was strong in Congress against the Navy's overall carrier doctrine. Part of the opposition comes from supporters of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, who believe that supercarriers put the Navy into the Air Force's business of strategic nuclear attack. But the most effective fight is coming from Navy types who contend that too much money is going into carriers that are vulnerable to both...
...just of ships. The obvious figure around which The Pursuit of the Graf Spee should have been built is that of Captain Langsdorff, whom Churchill himself described as "a high-class person." But the screen play of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger scarcely shows what happens on the German warship during the fateful engagement, and does not mention the captain's suicide at all. A potentially tragic figure thus never becomes even really interesting...
...combination of film clips, photographs and dialogue lovingly composed by Producer Burton Benjamin, Associate Producer Isaac Kleinerman and Writer John Davenport into a Concerto for Orchestra and One Man. Some rare scenes: a Soviet film of Lenin; an impatient Churchill pouncing up the gangplank of a World War II warship; a silently terrible shot of the British wreckage at Dunkirk; a boyish, 53-year-old General Dwight Eisenhower munching lunch on the floor of Franklin Roosevelt's auto in North Africa. In the next 25 hour-and half-hour weekly installments the same technique and an array of writers...