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David Wayne plays Songstress Froman's first husband, Don Ross, and Rory Calhoun is cast as John Burns, the Lisbon Clipper copilot who rescued her from the Tagus River after the crash and later married her. As a sort of composite of all nurses, Thelma Ritter plays a hardbitten, bighearted girl from Flatbush. Red-haired Susan Hayward, in the leading role, con vincingly matches her on-screen lip move ments to brunette Jane Froman's warm, vivacious singing voice on the sound track...
...entertain servicemen overseas Songstress Froman suffered near-fatal injuries in a 1943 Lisbon Clipper crash. Two years later, after 14 operations, she returned to Europe propped on crutches and toured more than 30,000 miles to sing for wounded G.I.s...
...addition to bones, marine biology began to fascinate him, and he decided he should have a mariner's license in order to explore the ocean himself. He joined the merchant marine, won his master's ticket, later fitted out a complete marine laboratory aboard a tuna clipper, and put it at the disposal of U.S.C. He also plunged into music, began buying up the finest cellos until he owned one of the best collections-Amati to Guarneri-in the world. When the Los Angeles symphony orchestra tumbled into the red, he reorganized it, filled up its coffers...
...DiMaggio, still the "Yankee Clipper" at 37, but no longer a terror at the plate (last year's batting average, his worst: .263), finally called it quits after 16 years with the Yankees. Said Centerfielder DiMaggio, who retires with a lifetime average of .325: "When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game. And so, I've played my last game of ball."-Joe's new job: before-&-after-game telecaster for the Yankees (at an estimated $50,000 a year...
Officials of the show &and some of the contributing artists &-in sharp rebuttal. The hammer & sickle on the sails, it turned out, was really just a large C (for clipper) with an I (for island) drawn through i &the symbol for the Island Clipper class. The red hue was not a forest fire, said Artist Gerald Campbell, but a symbol of birth. When Critic Harby muttered something under his breath at that, Artist Campbell rapped back: "I won't stand for this ... I spent two years in the Army fighting for freedom of expression...