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...tied them securely around their father. A moment later a huge wave broke over them. On shore, the praying watchers-gave a cry, and the village priest made a sign of the Cross. Neither the Flower nor her three crewmen were seen again, but soon afterward a coast-guard cutter, steaming belatedly from Santander, spied a white head bobbing in the water. It was Candido, battered but still alive...
Comedian Skelton is cast as Ambrose, a second-chisel man in a big Manhattan jewelry store, a diamond cutter whose tragedy is that he just buffs up the big ones for somebody else to blast. The big one in question is a stupendous rock called "The Blue Goddess." and some chiselers of another sort than Ambrose are interested in her. A foundling who has searched all his life for his parents, Ambrose thinks he has found them at last. Actually, he has run into a couple of shills for an underworld magnate (George Mathews), who is planning to heist...
...Bricker amendment, he was quite sure, would not affect the next three years. He was making his fight out of his belief and concern for what is good for the future of the U.S. The three-year reference inspired the United Press' alert political reporter, John Cutter, later in the conference, to ask if that meant that Ike was announcing himself as a one-term President. Ike grinned, flushed and ducked. That, he said with considerable embarrassment, was one subject he never should talk about...
...Radish-Red Admiral. Wilson called in a whole task force of top Pentagon personnel for a blistering, table-thumping session which started with midday lunch and ended after 6 p.m. Frequently during the afternoon. Wilson tapped with thumb and forefinger on a memorandum written by Parks and Cutter which, like the U.P. story, described the Nautilus as a "test vehicle." But a radish-red Admiral Parks stoutly denied that he had leaked the story...
...next day, Slade Cutter got Navy orders to go full speed astern. He had to endure the humiliation of going into the Pentagon pressroom and "leaking" the news that the Nautilus was indeed combat-worthy. When newsmen sniggered at his straight-faced efforts, Cutter said: "Well, that's the party line, anyway...