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...officers & men and 350 vessels of the Coast Guard is saving lives & property, not shooting 'leggers. They bring the only touch of civilization to remote corners of Alaska, succor Mississippi River flood victims, rescue bathers on the Great Lakes, conduct the international North Atlantic iceberg patrol which was instituted in 1914 after the Titanic disaster. Last week the Coast Guard got a new commandant...
...excitement which Producer Frissell felt about seal-hunting survives in his picture (he was going to call it White Thunder) and saves it both from the apathy of newsreels and from the pretentiousness of most commercialized films intended to be exotic. Best shot in The Viking is an iceberg with waves breaking against it. Producer Frissell wanted also to make a shot of an iceberg turning over and had gone back to Labrador to try to get one when the Viking blew up. Before The Viking's Manhattan premiere last week, Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Fox Frissell gave a dinner...
...this doleful news reached the old Nautilus toddling over the Atlantic toward England. What if, in the Arctic, an iceberg clapped against them...
Soph.: "What is an iceberg?" Freshman: "Oh, it's a sort of permanent wave...
First to see the iceberg dead ahead of the superliner Glamorland was Able Seaman James Morgan, lookout in the crow's nest. He saw it too late. At the same moment: Priggish, successful First Class Passanger Thurlow Burton was finishing his expensive dinner in the grill. Waiter Guiseppe Ziemssen was hovering for the tip. Beautiful but harebrained Mrs. Gilpin was sulking in her cabin. Her would be lover Major Wandrell was looking for her. Moses Vierstein, cloak & suit man, second class passenger, lay in his bunk wondering why he was not a success. All of them felt...