Word: battleship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tension. Though he can boast such entertainment highs as his modern-dress Julius Caesar, the tense The Rival Dummy with Paul Lukas, and the pyrotechnic pageantry of Battleship Bismarck, Miner feels that "the best type of play for us is the psychological melodrama-it always gets the best response and the highest rating...
...down in Anthony Martienssen's Hitler and His Admirals, written from captured Nazi records. One book seemed certain to become a minor classic of its kind: British Captain Russell Grenfell's The Bismarck Episode, a terse description of the pursuit and destruction of the mighty German battleship in the greatest sea hunt in naval history. Of the books of personal war experiences, two were outstanding: Norwegian Odd Nansen's From Day to Day, a grim report, set down with dignity, of what he saw as a prisoner in various German concentration camps; and Briton F. Spencer Chap...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). Paul Lukas in Battleship Bismarck...
...Bomber Generals." The scorn that Airman Radford once saved for "battleship admirals" he now turned on his fellow flyers across the fence in the Air Force. "Are we as a nation to have 'bomber generals' fighting to preserve the obsolete heavy bomber-the battleship of the air? Like its surface counterpart, its day is largely past ... In the last analysis, the B-36 is a 1941 airplane...
...British battleship Anson, the British carriers Implacable, Victorious and Theseus, the French carrier Arromanches, three British and five French cruisers, and 21 destroyers and destroyer escorts-headed in convoy for the Bay of Biscay. Submarines launched dummy torpedoes, French and British carriers exchanged air strikes, bombers roared overhead. Meanwhile, smaller craft of the Belgian navy joined other Western Union ships in mine-sweeping operations in Weymouth...