Word: bomber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gable has one strong scene in which he "talks down" a navigator who is trying to land a pilotless bomber. Significantly, this is the movie's one big outdoor sequence. Back inside headquarters, where drama depends on the reading of lines, Cinemactor Gable cannot always hold the center of the stage...
When the U.N. Assembly opened its sessions in Paris last September, young Garry Davis, onetime Broadway gadabout, wartime bomber pilot and son of Society Bandleader Meyer Davis, was an eccentric freak who camped on the U.N.'s doorstep, heckled its deliberations. A self-declared citizen of the world who had surrendered his U.S. passport, he was a pathetic lone voice. By last week he was the leader of a surging popular movement. It had surprised him as much as anyone, and it was carrying him along on its crest. TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief André Laguerre cabled...
...Garry Davis is no dope. He has a clear, canny mind which constantly surprises his intellectual French colleagues. He used to be a playboy, but now he abstains from smoking, drinks nothing stronger than beer. Although born in Bar Harbor, Maine, he considers Philadelphia his home town. As a bomber pilot he executed seven missions, was shot down on the last one (over Peenemünde) and was interned in Sweden, whither he escaped. After the war he returned to show business, understudied Danny Kaye. He got interested in the United World Federalists, but gave them up as a "cocktail...
...Night, the Sun Again. Darkness brought hope. The men on the rafts heard the engines of a bomber-a B-iy from Hickam Field, Hawaii. They fired flares, saw marker flares dropped in reply. The B-17 turned away and their hopes fell. During the night, one of the men died. As the sun grew hot again, the sky was empty and silent. Pilot Calhoun, a commander still, allowed each man one sip of water in the first 24 hours. It only seemed to make their thirst keener...
...second day wore on, one man jumped into the water, was washed away and disappeared. But finally, in mid-afternoon-35 hours and three sips of water after they had boarded the rafts-they saw salvation: a fat-bellied Navy Privateer patrol bomber roared overhead and began to circle...