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...ethos, born of the director's fascination with stage gadgetry. For the Ride of the Valkyries in Die Walküre, Hall straps four warrior maidens to a slowly descending platform, while beneath them their sisters prepare the naked bodies of dead heroes for consignment to Valhalla. This mothership scene seems to have unaccountably wandered in from a production by, say, George Lucas...
...Horta in the Azores, some 500 miles off Lisbon, sped the mothership Schwabenland. Aboard were the world's most powerful catapult and two sleek new Dornier all-metal flying boats, the Aeolus and Zephir. High-winged monoplanes with sponsons, powered by two Junkers Diesel engines in tandem on the wing-top, they weigh ten tons, have a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Anchoring 100 miles off Horta, the Schwabenland prepared to send one plane non-stop to New York, the other to Bermuda, then to New York. Reason the start was from the Azores is that Lufthansa regards...
While the court continued to sit last week, while the mothership Lucia remained disgracefully at anchor, the Atlantic Fleet, including four motherless submarines, steamed off for the West Indies...
...equip, $200,000 to run for a summer. Already Enterprise has five suits of sails. Sails for all the "J" boats are made at City Island by Ratsey & Lapthorn, Inc. Each boat has a crew of 36 big-eating seamen and a fleet of satellites - a towing tender, a mothership or houseboat with quarters on it for the crew, launches for the owners. When they lie off Newport each will have a shore telephone connection...