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...ever a picture had a chance to make a name for itself as a work of art instead of a box-office phenomenon, "This Above All" was it. Two basic human themes are woven into this story of people adrift in the currents of war--love for a woman and love for a country. But with almost depressing inevitability the picture shifts the emphasis of the best-selling novel, until by the end, it is obvious that the hybrid product is more the work of Hollywood than Eric Knight...
...else to address his father in that manner either. ... It was Aldrich, even tho a "lad" that provided the most of the food on that voyage. It was he who sighted the islet. . . . You see, I received a telegram from headquarters, saying that my son would recount his experience adrift in a rubber life raft in an interview over NBC Blue network. . . . And it was the "Aldrich lad," that led that little band in the Lord's Prayer (even tho Dixon was old enough to be his father), and every evening thereafter they held prayer services. . . . I am very...
...Captain William Bligh and 18 men, set adrift in a 23-foot boat by the mutinied crew of H.M.S. Bounty in 1789, navigated 3,600 miles of open seas to Timor, Dutch East Indies. But Bligh had a small supply of food, water, navigation instruments and a much more seaworthy craft...
Seamen, dead and alive, in lifeboats adrift from Bermuda to Halifax, told the U.S. last week that all was not well off the North American coastline. Near Bermuda a U.S. patrol plane pancaked on the ocean, rescued nine Britons whose tanker was sunk by a German U-boat off New York. A South American steamer spotted a lifeboat half-filled with water and dead sailors, but had to leave them when a periscope broke water near by. Off Nova Scotia, 20 men of the 48-man crew of a torpedoed tanker were picked up. Three semiconscious survivors of the Standard...
Instead she decided to become its Prussia. This led her into one economic predicament after another, to the final suicide's-way-out. Last week Japan cut herself adrift from the nations that supplied 80% of her war materials...