Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even amidst all this confusion, Harbor Lights might have been interesting had it had a lyrical or even believable line of dialogue. "If I've failed you, honey, it is all my fault," someone says to someone else. Now when would ordinary Staten Island white trash use that kind of language? If both the action and dialogue are impossible, even such accomplished players as Miss Linda Darnell and Mr. Robert Alda of Hollywood, Calif. are bound to have trouble. Most assuredly they at least know their lines...
...Harbor Lights straggled in from New Haven or Peoria or someplace at the beginning of the week, and the management has promised it will straggle out by early Sunday morning...
After dinner J.D.R. Jr. and his guests often gather around a baby-grand piano while Mrs. Rockefeller plays Mendelssohn or Chopin, or the J.D.R. Jr.s might drive downtown to the Criterion in Bar Harbor to a movie, e.g., The King and I. Every now and then, J.D.R. Jr. darts out on a sudden foray: one day he remarked to a visitor that he had just been out to buy 22 Bibles, "one for each of my grandchildren...
...hope foreigners will realize, said one Israeli spokesman with an angry gesture toward the steamer lying at anchor in Haifa harbor, "that what Nasser did to the Panaghia today, he can do to British and American ships tomorrow." To the people of Israel at least, the 550-ton Greek freighter was floating proof that Egypt's Nasser, as master of the Suez Canal, could not be counted on to keep his promise not to interfere with the free passage of shipping. The Panaghia itself was not the only vessel to find its way barred as it tried to pass...
Last week the "forgotten ship" Panaghia dropped anchor in the Israeli harbor. "In all my years afloat," said Captain Koutales, "I have never experienced such treatment before...