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Poor combat-fatigued 20th Century-Fox may lose The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The studio needs an obsolete cruiser, an obsolete flattop and two obsolete submarines with deck guns. The Pentagon has refused to help with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Follow the Boys, even though M-G-M agreed to take out a scene that shows an admiral getting seasick. The Pentagon is, by and large, against comedies...
...starting flag fell prematurely in the annual Miami-to-Nassau powerboat race, sent speedboats scuttling wildly across each other's wakes, resulted in a collision between a Coast Guard patrol boat and a 40-ft. cruiser. For once the choppy ocean course was placid and the race went to the swift, not the sturdy. The winner: Aokone, a light 25-ft. runabout powered by twin 280-h.p. Mercury engines and skippered by Florida's John Bakos. Aokone covered the 182-mile distance in a record 3 hr. 42 min. 20 sec., at an average speed of 49 m.p.h...
...steel war was coming to an end, President Kennedy embarked on an overnight cruise with the Atlantic Fleet. Just before he boarded the heavy cruiser Northampton in Norfolk, Kennedy got word that U.S. Steel had buckled and cut back prices. "I think." he said, "the others will all follow now. They can't afford not to." On that note of triumph, he went...
...flackery, commuters making the maiden voyage were given life memberships in the Commuter Yacht Club, entitling them to be "piped aboard upon returning home after a hard day at the office; to demand inordinate quantities of lime in gin and tonic as a prevention against scurvy; to address the cruiser pilot as 'Mr. Christian.' " Burbled one enchanted voyager: "What's Venice got on Chicago...
With two boats-a 55-ft. motor cruiser and a 23-ft. inboard runabout-he keeps busy on the water for three or four hours...