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...dream of old Navy men is always to devise official ways & means to by-pass the Secretary of the Navy and any other civilians on the staff. Apparently Secretary Knox's reorganization, after the admirals keelhauled it, would have left him out as definitely as a man overboard...
Said surprised Mr. Hard, "I think Old Golds are going overboard...
...cross fire. A British truck driver named Downes, who escaped from both Dunkirk and Tobruk, said Tobruk was worse. Reaching the docks just as an artillery shell blew up a building behind him, he boarded a tug, which soon took two or three direct shell hits amidships. He jumped overboard, swam around patches of blazing oil, cried out to a passing mine sweeper, was hauled aboard. Next day the mine sweeper was attacked and burned by Italian torpedo boats whose fire killed all the mine sweeper's gunners. Again Downes went overside, swam to a raft, from which...
...That the only body to ever wash ashore at Virginia Beach during 1941 and 1942 was that of a seaman who was washed overboard while trying to catch a line from a pilot's boat at the entrance of Chesapeake Bay. This could have happened in peacetime...
...picture goes overboard with an elaborate presentation of You're A Grand Old Flag. But the simple restaging of Cohan's conception of his cocky war song, Over There, is enough to send movie audiences straight off to battle-especially as gusty Songstress Frances Langford sings it (with Johnny Get Your Gun) to 1917's doughboys. The rest, down through one of Cohan's last stage appearances (in I'd Rather Be Right, 1937), is anticlimax...