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...airborne thermometer that can take the temperature of the sea was described last week by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of Woods Hole, Mass. Originally developed by Henry Stommel and Donald Parson, the thermometer measures the long-wave radiation from the sea and from it shows whether the water is warm or cold. The gadget has been used successfully to track the inner edge of the Gulf Stream, distinguishing it from colder inshore water all the way from Florida up to George's Bank, off Cape...
George Washington has had his ups & downs since the days of his idolatrous early biographer, Parson Weems. The debunking period set in long ago-at least as early as 1880, when a character in Henry Adams' novel, Democracy, ticked him off as "a rawboned country farmer, very hard-featured, very awkward, very illiterate and very dull." Since then, two generations of "liberal" debunkers have gleefully whittled away at his reputation, trying to leave the impression that Washington was little more than a stodgy figurehead...
...Brandy for the Parson, something went wrong. I'm still not sure what it was, but a picture that started with plot possibilities that looked as bright as (and quite similar to) those of Tight Little Island should not have begun to limp pathetically along on one joke before the first hour was up. The fault did not lie with the actors; they were newcomers to the game of British Comedy but they performed well and provided a refreshing change from the standard menagerie of J. Arthur Rank eccentrics...
There were moments of good clean farce, and a liberal enough dose of subtly amusing tidbits to make the picture enjoyable. Brandy for the Parson is not one of the really awful films that occasionally slip across the Atlantic, but for audiences spoiled by Alec Guinness' recent tours de force, it is bound to be somewhat of a disappointment...
...counts for much more than his gloriously Dickensian servant, Sam Weller. The trial scene, too, though it is made the climax of the evening, has been shorn of its full comic grandeur, with Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz's appearance in it all too brief. But Stiggins, the red-nosed parson, and Jingle and Mrs. Leo Hunter and many others have a proper share in the fun, and Mr. Young has contrived a sort of affectionate final roundup in the Fleet Prison. There is an attractive cast, and John Burrell's direction is neither too muscular nor too quaint. However...