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Aboard the O-9 were Lieut. Howard J. Abbott, a line officer who had four years of submarine experience; Ensign Marks P. Wangsness, a 27-year-old reservist; and 31 crewmen, some of whom were youngsters just recruited. Seaman Charles L. Eagleton, 24, after a test dive in shallow water, had recently written his father: "Everything went wrong, but we've got it under control now." Seaman Francis Golden had told his father that the O-9 had sprung 19 leaks, that "water poured into her right away" on her first runs. Seaman Nathan Gersen had told his family...
...Abbott and Costello and Dick Powell in the Navy (Universal) is about all the title a theater marquee can take. As a title, it has one virtue: it tells the whole plot of the picture without wasting a word. As a gag it bright-lights a major weakness of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's second cinemadventure: the picture strains for its laughs...
...Abbott, John...
...POCKETFUL OF CLUES-James R. Langham-Simon & Schuster ($2). Tough Detective Sammy Abbott, who has a morbid appetite for peanut butter on his ice cream, sees a ragamuffin giving the hotfoot to a park-bench sleeper. The sleeper does not twitch. In fact underneath his newspaper he has no head at all. A story of civic corruption in Santa Monica, with mayor dead and crooked politicians confounded...
Sickness has hindered the development of the crews from the start. First Johnny Abbott came down with mumps at the beginning of the important spring vacation training session. Then Beanie Gilchrist and Tony Whittemore were temporarily put out of action, and the latest loss to the squad is that of Ken Smith, now incapacitated with the measles...