Word: brigs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brig-of-war Somers was wallowing through the long mid-Atlantic rollers under balmy skies, four days' sail from the Virgin Islands. Converted into a training ship, the brig was on her way home from what had begun ten weeks earlier as a routine cruise. But a terror unique in the U.S. Navy's history had mocked routine. From the main yardarm dangled three lifeless, hooded figures. They had been hanged by order of the ship's captain. Reason: alleged conspiracy to mutiny...
...assistant deans are in charge of the School of Public Health until the Corporation appoints a new Dean to replace Brig. Gen. James S. Simmons, who died of a heart attack this summer...
...Committee, headed by Senators Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) and Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo.), urged yesterday that the Senate formally censure McCarthy for his "contemptuous, contumacious, and denunciatory" treatment of a previous committee's investigations of his actions and his "reprehensible treatment" of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker last December...
University officials pointed out that a letter from the FBI to Brig. Gen. Harry Vaughn implicating Halperin in communist activities was not available when they considered the professor's case last June...
...when hardly anything happens. Based on a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the script is a sort of reefed-in version of Mutiny on the Bounty. Instead of Clark Gable there is Alan Ladd, an actor who, even in the squalor of a windjammer's brig, carries himself as if he were wearing a dinner jacket under his rags. Instead of Charles Laughton there is James Mason, who makes (whenever he raises his voice above its customary elegant whisper) a fetching younger version of Captain Bligh. The wishbone of contention between Ladd and Mason is provided...