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...Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A faithful reproduction of the terrifying training mission of a real-life jet-bomber crew. A rerun for those who missed The Obenauf Story (TiME, April 13), but worth seeing again by those who sweated out the original show...
Numb. With admirable attention to the truth, the Goodyear Theater (NBC) presented The Obenauf Story, the heroic accomplishment of Lieut. James Edward Obenauf, who saved himself, a fellow officer and a $2,000,000 airplane when he landed a crippled six-jet B-47 at Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, Texas (TIME, May 12). As Obie, the young father, Actor Kerwin Mathews was at first quietly convincing. Later, when Obenauf found himself at 34,000 feet in command of a burning plane, all the rest of the crew except a navigator bailed out-and the navigator dying of hypoxia...
...flight control officer yammered and yelled into the tower microphone, broke in on the G.C.A. operator in hammy confusion, the G.C.A. operator himself was superbly true to life. Calm, careful, his every tone reassuring and reliable, he was just the man to bring a pilot home.* The true Lieut. Obenauf was surely willing to overlook the utterly silly last lines that the show put in his mouth: "Hey, I gotta pick up all that baby stuff from the Maxwells'." In real life, temporarily blinded though he was, he had jumped from the plane and run until someone tackled...
...Lieut. Obenauf went to the Lake Zurich, ILL. High School, did not go to college...
...opportunity to fly and fight alongside men like Obenauf that keeps most of us strapped into that oxygen mask...