Word: battleship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limited volume of gas, say helium," he admits, "can be thought of either as a collection of many helium atoms or as a superposition of elementary wave trains of matter waves." By the same kind of reasoning, a desk, a battleship, or even Dr. Schrödinger himself may be merely a fuss kicked up by conflicting waves...
...Battleship construction...
Career: After four years at sea in both the Atlantic and Pacific, Lieut. Radford went to Pensacola, Fla., took up flying, did a turn later as an instructor, and in time became one of the most outspoken partisans of the Navy's air arm against the battleship admirals then in power...
...Limits (Paramount) casts durable Funnyman Bob Hope as a prizefight manager turned military policeman. Hope tangles with a frozen-faced sergeant (Eddie Mayehoff) and an apoplectic general, gets seasick watching his protege, MP Mickey Rooney, box on board a battleship, masterminds a championship fight via walkie-talkie and falls for Rooney's beautiful aunt (Marilyn Maxwell), easily the best-looking aunt of the year. Making brief personal appearances in the picture: Bing Crosby, Jack Dempsey, ex-Footballer Tom Harmon. The result, though no main movie event, is a fairly entertaining, lightweight preliminary...
Died. Captain Warner R. Edsall, 48, skipper since last September of the battleship Missouri; of a heart attack; aboard his ship in Sasebo harbor, Japan...