Word: decks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since "Rum and Coca Cola's" ban from the major networks, Joe Sidnor has been frantically searching for a copy of the words. Try Ben "Showers" Nielson, Joe. A moment of silence for our old pal K.G. (Cagey) Pickle, the Birmingham Buzz Bomb. Known to the third deck and patrons of the Merry-Go-Round as a natural wit, old Kirb will really be missed by all who knew...
...complicated poker game of Argentine politics, Vice President Juan Domingo Perón shuffled offices like a deck of cards. Out of the Cabinet last week went Foreign Minister Orlando Peluffo. In as Acting Foreign Minister came César Ameghino, considered a temporary appointee. In eliminating Peluffo, a stiff-necked nationalist, Perón had eliminated his last important opponent in the Cabinet. The wily Vice President could now proceed with his program of stabilizing Argentina's Government, improving her foreign relations and perhaps one day achieving U.S. recognition...
...story of this flattop begins with green young men, many of them unbelievably boyish, endlessly rehearsing their deck and air routines, or loafing in the sunlight as their floating town lounges through the improbable colors of the Gulf Stream and edges her way through the Panama Canal. While they loaf, they wonder. Their destination is still as dead a blank to them as their experience of combat. Then, well out in the Pacific, in some rough, wonderful shots, they meet a tanker and refuel, and know at least that their job is to be long and businesslike...
...miles out of Panama, they approach and learn their target-the small, elegant triangle of Marcus Island. The night before their first experience of combat-a night crowded with taciturn faces, with letters home, with prayers and last Communions, with the subdued, systematic turmoil of spotting the deck, with athletes' breakfasts served by artificial light, and finally with just waiting-is one of the most moving sequences in the film...
...superhuman force and grandeur and of jewel-like delicacy, might well make this film the envy of good poets and painters for the rest of time. Later on, over Truk and Kwajalein and the Marianas, these shots-plus some hair-raising ones of crash-landings on the carrier deck-heap one astonishment so thickly upon another that the eye and mind can hardly keep pace. For violent air action and for pure visual magnificence, The Fighting Lady is not likely ever to be beaten...