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Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner) is possibly the most genial screen biography ever made. Few films have bestowed such loving care on any hero as this one does on beaming, buoyant, wry-mouthed George M. (for Michael) Cohan. The result is a nostalgic, accurate re-creation of a historic era of U.S. show business. Not that the picture is a strict reconstruction of the playwright-songwright-actor-producer-hoofer's life. But star-spangled George M. Cohan, now 63, ailing, and confined to his upstate New York farm, was the kind of entertainer who really liked to entertain people...
Engineers studied salvage plans. Designer Yourkevitch had one. After divers had sealed all openings, one after another of her compartments could be sealed and pumped out until she was buoyant. If water was then pumped into her double bottoms and deep tanks, Yourkevitch believes, the ship would finally right herself. At week's end, as she must for many a coming week, the Lafayette lay, desolate and shameful, in the river's grey...
Until Globe American submitted its plans, there was no standard U.S. lifeboat; until it began assembly-line production, lifeboats were built at small, coastal shipyards, usually of wood. Into each of Globe American's boats goes one and a half tons of sheet steel. Heavier than wood, less buoyant, air tanks and kapok nevertheless make Globe boats unsinkable...
Speech. During World War I Woodrow Wilson canceled all press conferences. Mr. Roosevelt met the press, lectured them on what they might and might not print (see p. 62). He looked calm, rested, cheery, buoyant...
Despite his physical condition, the buoyant Scot finished his first draft in three days. In three more he had written the final draft-a phenomenal average of 10,000 words...