Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Donald W. Sorrell, 64, onetime skipper (retired since 1956) of the Queen Mary, who, during the New York tugboat strike of 1953, displayed his master seamanship by turning on the knuckle of Manhattan's Pier 90, bending his behemoth of the seas into her slip without the services of the usual flotilla of tugs; of a heart ailment; in Southampton, England...
...beneath an improbable-looking ruin, a traveling circus pitches tent in the vicinity, and where does Danny's tunnel end? Spang in the middle of the lion act. Danny survives the lion's den-only to be consumed with passion for the girl on the flying trapeze (Pier Angeli). But this is madness! He is already engaged to Miss Letitia Fairchild (Patricia Cutts), a powerful young woman who will stand for no nonsense. What can poor Danny...
...frog-voiced Governor S. (for Samuel) Marvin Griffin. Last week a state senate investigating committee complained that Bainbridge's home-town boy has been doing too much in trying to overcome nature's oversights. The Griffin administration has spent half a million dollars for a 400-ft. pier, a transit shed and sulphur unloading facilities. And along with brother Cheney Griffin (Bainbridge's mayor and Marv's paid state assistant) and six other Griffin administration officials, the governor is a stockholder in Caribe Transport Line, Inc., a company that will this spring take advantage...
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Universal) is the sort of stevedore special Hollywood has been serving up ever since On the Waterfront, when the moviemakers discovered that the public likes a pier with a yegg...
...story this time is lifted from the book, The Man Who Rocked the Boat, in which William Keating described his adventures on the waterfront as a racket-busting assistant to Manhattan's district attorney. An honest pier boss (Mickey Shaughnessy), who refuses to holler uncle when the musclemen apply the pressure, is burned with half a dozen garlic-smeared slugs, and Keating (Richard Egan) is assigned to make the case against the goons who got him. He gets nowhere fast. The longshoremen, as usual, are afraid to talk. The victim himself refuses to "rat." The affable union boss (Walter...