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Thagaard's opponents do not deny his ability and honesty. Tall, thin, with straggly white hair and a face as rugged as Norway's coastline, he is a dedicated public servant. He spends long working days in a decrepit old rocking chair at a big, flattop desk, carries away stacks of homework every night. He earns less than $5,000 yearly, lives in a small, unpretentious flat in Oslo, rides buses and streetcars, and does not own an automobile. His only relaxation is attending opening nights with his wife, a theater critic, whom he married...
...Micronesia, the aircraft carrier came of age. Whereas the Americans were reduced to one flattop in the Solomons in late 1942, they took 16 to the Marshalls in early 1944. Two weeks after Kwajalein, Admiral Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58 smothered the great base at Truk with 568 planes, and sank 200,000 tons of shipping (biggest single day of the war). The Navy, abetted by U.S. industry, had found -in amphibious expertness and carrier proficiency-the twin weapons that would lead to victory...
...light carrier Independence. Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, boss of Operation Crossroads, said as he stepped on the hulk's buckled flight deck: "She certainly can't be called a flattop any more. She's a rooftop...
Deck crews on a flattop in the Pacific had to look twice before they laughed. On a destroyer idling alongside was a huge sign, addressed to Japanese suicide pilots, who are pretty much staying at home these days. Scrawled under a big arrow was the legend: "This Way to the Carriers...
Practically Yours (Paramount) is the story of a heroic flyer (Fred MacMurray) who outlives his suicide-dive at a Japanese flattop; of an infatuated former officemate (Claudette Colbert) who gets the mistaken impression that he is in love with her; and of their efforts, during his two weeks' leave, to keep the public fooled for the public's own, hero-worshipping sake. Though it recalls the brilliant Hall the Conquering Hero, the picture is in many respects just the sort of smoothly routine, over-contrived comedy that Colbert and MacMurray team so crisply in. Yet its artificial flowers...