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Battleships are majestic, destroyers are dashing, submarines are sinister -but LSTs (landing ship, tank) are slow, clumsy, ugly, and somehow faintly comic. Lieut. Jake Adler, who commands LST 1826 as it bobs between Naples and Anzio during World War II, is an easygoing skipper who runs an exceedingly loose and happy ship. All the 99 officers and men aboard could have stepped right out of an old MGM movie. In fact, after a while, the reader begins to wish that a Mr. Roberts would appear to toss the captain's palm tree overboard, or that Skipper Adler would start...
Since his cut of those winnings is a flat 10% plus expenses, it is no wonder that Neloy is no longer Eddie Neloy, Esq., but Eddie Neloy, Inc. A World War II machine gunner who lost the sight of his right eye at Anzio, he moodily insists that "training is an inexact science"-but since 1945, when he saddled his first winner, Neloy has won 700-odd races and 17 of his horses have won more than $100,000 in a single year. Before he signed on with the Phippses last November, Eddie worked mostly as a "public" trainer...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Eyewitness reports on the battle for the Anzio beachhead in World War II. Repeat...
Adams developed his toughness the hard way. In World War II, he helped direct the Ranger tactics of the First Special Service Force in the Aleutian Islands and Italy, also served in hot spots from Anzio and Ardennes-Alsace to the Rhineland and central Germany. In the Korean war, he ended up as Eighth Army Commander Maxwell Taylor's chief of staff. He directed U.S. Army and Marine forces in the landings in Lebanon in 1958. Last fall he was the key commander in the huge "Operation Big Lift" that sent 15,377 men and 445 tons of combat...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The story of the landings on the beachhead at Anzio, 1944. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, who was there, comments...