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...PT 109. Warner Bros. has approached the story of J.F.K.'s 1943 heroism with a reverence usually reserved for a New Testament spectacle: not a chapter or verse of Robert Donovan's bestseller is omitted. This accounts for the film's nearly 21-hour running time. It does not account, however, for turning the first hour or so into a miniaturized Mister Roberts. All the old hands are on board. There is the salty Regular Navy-man who makes things tough for the fresh-water PT-boat jockeys; there are the stock-comic enlisted men with true...
...ways. Cigar sales have soared (Jack smokes them). Hat sales have fallen (Jack does not wear them). Bureaucrats show up at work in dark suits, well-shined shoes, avoid button-down shirts (Jack says they are out of style). The more eager New Frontiersmen secure their striped ties with PT-boat clasps-and seem not the least bit embarrassed. The most popular restaurants in Washington are Le Bistro and the Jockey Club, which serve the light Continental foods that Jackie Kennedy features on the White House menu. The less palatable Colony restaurant, tops during the Republican Eisenhower Administration, went broke...
...statesman proposed the Marshall Plan of postwar aid: "Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos." For his third offering, March had planned to read Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Killers. But as tribute to World War II PT-boat Hero Kennedy, Widow Mary Hemingway had dug through a bank vault of her husband's unpublished manuscripts, come up with a chapter from a novel about a young American who fought Nazi submarines from a fishing boat. It began: "The wind had blown heavily for more than fifty...
...five battalions of helicopters and seaborne marines, equipped with napalm bombs, heavy artillery, and Ontos (the latest armored antitank vehicles). After the beach had been captured in a deafening final act, the President exclaimed: "Isn't that terrific!" Later, as he boarded his Washington-bound jet, the erstwhile PT-boat commander had some heartfelt parting words: "As we leave this base today, we are prouder than ever that we are citizens of the United States and supporters of these men who serve us so well...
...MacArthur for his "triumphant" tour, the general thanked the President for making him "feel a part of the current scene." Later the vigorous vintage soldier offered his impressions of the onetime sailor in the White House: "He seems to have changed very little since he was one of my PT-boat commanders in the Pacific war. He was a good one, too-a brave and resourceful young naval officer. But, judging from the luncheon he served me today [pièce de résistance: Cornish hen; dessert: omelette surprise]," added MacArthur, "he is living somewhat higher...