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Sealed Cargo (RKO Radio), a low-voltage drama of the high seas, pits some hapless Nazis against steel-jawed Dana Andrews, probably the most talkative down-Easter ever to ship out of Gloucester. Headed for the Newfoundland fishing banks, Andrews is still trying to sort out the spies among his crew when he comes across a disabled mother ship for German U-boats disguised as a Danish schooner...
...Canadians agree with External Affairs Chief Lester B. Pearson that the U.S. is ignoring or mishandling Canada's foreign-policy interests. Scholarly William Joseph Browne, a Newfoundland Tory M.P., took time out from the budget debate in Parliament last week to place a sharply dissenting opinion on the record. Said Browne...
...witness stand looked like anything but the popular conception of a Communist, and his story made him an even unlikelier candidate for the role. Big, blond Sterling Hayden had quit school when he was 15, became a fisherman off Newfoundland, a sailor in the Caribbean, the master of a sailing schooner by the time he was 21. He had wound up in Hollywood as the untamed adventurer of half a dozen films, was briefly married to Actress Madeleine Carroll and dropped everything in 1941 to help out in the war. But before the House Un-American Activities Committee last week...
...take the air. They are "all-weather interceptors" (Lockheed F-94s of the 52nd Fighter All-Weather Wing), ready to leap at a moment's notice into action against an enemy invader. The signal they are waiting for is a speck on a radarscope, picked up perhaps in Newfoundland or on a ship at sea. If the Russians come over the pole or Greenland (the shortest route), interceptors from New England bases will be first in the air. If they come over the Atlantic, McGuire will "scramble" to meet them...
...black-and-grey light bomber took off from Alder-grove airbase in Northern Ireland and streaked westward, outrunning the thunder of its twin jets. Soaring to 41,000 ft., the R.A.F.'s Canberra raced the sun above it. Four hours and 40 minutes later, it skimmed down to Newfoundland's Gander field. The sun had made the swing in only 3½ hours. But the Canberra, averaging 445 m.p.h., had made the fastest Atlantic crossing ever, the hard way-30 minutes faster than a Mosquito bomber's five hours and ten minutes made from west to east...