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...Overtime. While the plant came apart around him, quiet, durable, skilled mechanic Emil Koch, 39, went right on working on the last of the big searchlights he would help build for the Navy. He was used to tumult...
When he switched to searchlights in 1943, Bridgeport-born Emil Koch was nearly ready to bolt for the California shipyards. But last week, with the papers full of unemployment alarms, he was glad his wife had held him back...
Sonya Levien's original story of Gersh win's progress from a penny arcade pianola to fabulous success and tragic death has been adapted by Scripters How ard Koch and Elliot Paul with simplicity and reasonable fidelity. Newcomer Robert Alda looks enough like Gershwin and, with the aid of some astute photography, fakes his piano playing skilfully enough to be convincing in the cacophony of Remick's, a music publishing company, and impressive at a concert grand in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall...
...Said Koch: "Be calm, be calm, and above all, be sure that I love...
Next morning, just before stepping into the Black Maria which took him to be executed, Koch said: "I am repentant and very serene. Goodbye, good luck, I won't waver...