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Died. Vice Admiral Willis Augustus ("Ching") Lee Jr., 57, Commander Battleships Pacific, who helped save the Guadalcanal invasion in 1942 by running his battleships past the P-T-boat advance guard ("This is Ching Lee. Get out of the way; I'm coming through," he radioed) to do battle with the Jap fleet (score: one enemy battleship and three cruisers sunk); of a heart attack; aboard a small boat carrying him to his flagship Wyoming; in Casco Bay, Me., where he was engaged in a special top-secret assignment...
Without letting her know what was wrong with him, he did his best to break off with his sweetheart, Ruth Hartley (Eleanor Parker). But thanks to her love and patience, the pep talks of his fellow marine Lee Diamond (Dane Clark) and the kindliness of a Red Cross worker (Rosemary De Camp), he was finally won back into human circulation...
...also exciting-because the screen is so unaccustomed to plain talk-to see and hear the angry discussion of postwar prospects which Scripter Albert Maltz has written for the hospitalized marines. Effectively outspoken, too, is Lee Diamond's reminder, to Al, that blindness gives him no monopoly on job handicaps-that Diamond himself has been plentifully handicapped all his life because...
...Canteen's noisy weekends are coolly run by matronly Mrs. Harry Lee Virden, an Episcopal Army chaplain's wife, who assigns classic-minded musicians to practice rooms on the second floor, and jam fans to the third floor. The resultant uproar from the 28 unsoundproofed cubbyholes usually involves the trial flights of several singers, a dozen pianists, a hot accordion, strings and horns, all at once. One soldier motorcycles up from Ft. Belvoir (Va.) for violin lessons from Author Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus...
Every week Canada at War Editor Sanford Lee Cooper and Richard Draper get the full reports of the Canadian Press (Canada's Associated Press, a service received by no other magazine in America)-and every week this team follows the reporting in 47 Canadian newspapers and magazines. But even more important to TIME's coverage of Dominion news is our own staff of Canadian correspondents...