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...news executives were prompt to disagree with this academic handling of a practical problem. Said Edward T. Leech, editor of the Pittsburgh Press: "If we were to slant our news on the optimism or pessimism basis, we would then be propaganda sheets." Said Erwin D. Canham, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor: "Headlines should be written [only] to reflect the news as accurately and graphically as possible...
...Caribbean in the Golden Age of piracy. Hero is one Jamie-Boy Waring (Tyrone Power), who stands by his old captain, Henry Morgan (Laird Cregar), when Morgan decides to reform and put his buccaneering ex-mates out of business. Villain is Captain Leech (George Sanders, in a beard like a bonfire), also one of Morgan's raiders. The Black Swan is unreformed Captain Leech's pirate ship. Heroine is Lady Margaret Denby (Maureen O'Hara), daughter of Jamaica's ousted Governor...
...eyeful of his expensive torso. Later he kidnaps her aboard his ship, The Revenge, wolfs roast fowl at her in the Henry VIII manner. She succumbs. She stands by in a petticoat while, in a frenzy of rapiers, broadsides and bloated sails, Jamie-Boy and Governor Morgan liquidate Leech and crew. Occasionally Mr. Power has flashes of Douglas Fairbanks. Most of the time he is just a tougher-than-normal Tyrone Power. The aloof and lordly ships, whenever they get a chance, sail majestically away with the show...
...three-day trek into the regions beyond I personally got more than 100 leech bites-I counted them carefully-in spite of heavy army boots and gaiters, and in spite of constantly picking the vile creatures off my legs, arms and neck! One night we spent in a little shack which was so dirty and wet and crowded that we hardly slept at all. The sandflies were absolutely appalling. The next night we came rather unexpectedly to a clean, well-ordered Chinese camp. Here was a Chinese colonel, an interpreter who spoke Chinese, English, Urdu, Hindu, Bengali, Nepali and Assamese...
...were absolute nightmares with living and decomposing bodies together in a gloomy and dripping atmosphere which would have been depressing by itself. We carried surgical dressings and we did what we could by binding up the appalling ulcers which most of these men have acquired as a result of leech bites, insect bites...