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...those chaotic last moments, a Minnesota couple passed their two-year-old son through a window to a life raft, then were trapped in the sinking plane. Lieut. Commander John Natwing leaped from a Coast Guard amphibian that landed at the scene, seized one drowning passenger, and fought off sharks for half an hour until they were both pulled to safety. Another hero was the DC-4's captain. He helped some passengers out of the plane and managed to float four life rafts before the plane sank. He hauled a baby and an elderly woman to a raft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Easter Excursion | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...Joey is perfect heel-&-toe stuff which, while carving up Joey, both creates and burlesques a raft of dance routines. What with the nightclub background, the second act possibly suffers from a take-off or so too many; but now as aforetimes Robert Alton's choreography has amazing liveliness, and the hoofing chorines are the jolliest bunch of girls in several seasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Musical in Manhattan | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Kanter has everything necessary for a fast-moving high-scoring offense: speedy backs, a raft of good passers, and numerous grasping ends. In addition, all his players are well-grounded in the T-formation which Kanter likes to teach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Closed Powerhouse Opens Schedule | 11/3/1951 | See Source »

From here the picture moves painfully through the histories of a raft of love-lorn couples, played by completely unknown, untalented actors. Scenes from each of six unrelated sagas are mixed in perfect combination to produce utter confusion. Characters are introduced and dropped with perplexing regularity...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/10/1951 | See Source »

This week Don Douglas' inventors-of-necessity announced a new device which may well save hundreds of lives: a sea-rescue life raft which can be shot torpedo-like from a plane. On contact with the water, it inflates itself, starts its own outboard motor, can then be guided by radio beam from the mother plane to floating survivors. Now Douglas engineers are working on a brand-new project. Douglas Engineer Ed Heinemann, who thinks the aircraft bomb is the one piece of equipment which hasn't kept pace with aviation's modernization, is working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Shooting the Sun | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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