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...week's end, only one scrap of evidence had been picked up in the Baltic-an empty yellow life raft of the type issued to Navy patrol bombers. This week, the U.S. charged that the Russians shot down the plane over open waters and demanded indemnity for the dead American flyers. But it was a sign of U.S. awareness of the incidental perils of cold war, that there were no shouts for any hot fighting to begin...
...Survivor. The tale of his 22 days on a raft in mid-Pacific was one of the most publicized adventures of World War II. Though his record of aerial victory in World War I (21 German planes, four observation balloons) was beaten by 22 U.S. fighter pilots in the vaster air battles of World War II, most Americans, at the mention of combat in the skies, still instinctively remembered Rickenbacker's name first. There were also thousands of grey-haired citizens who remembered him as a helmeted and goggled speed demon of the U.S. automobile race tracks...
Bobbing Flotsam. Drifting, drinking rain water, munching the hard candy which was all they had saved from their emergency rations, the survivors spent a second sleepless night. Colonel Grable caught a two-foot yellowtail, but lost it before he could bring it aboard. One raft overturned twice; all but two flares were lost and the emergency radio would no longer work. Overhead, the men still heard the sound of crisscrossing search planes, twice sighted ships but were unable to attract the attention of the searchers...
...individual skits are very well done. W. C. Fields manages to wreak vengeance on road-bogs at large for the wrecking of his hard-earned flivver by a member of their clan. He manages to destroy five cars in the process, and to do so amusingly, George Raft, a forger, cannot cash his million-dollar check since the police are after him and no bank will take a draught with his writing on it. Gary Cooper and Jack Oakie lose theirs because they like to sock sergeants (they are in the Marines...
...Raft, the Ritz Brothers and sundry other notables. He bought a $75,000 stucco "bungalow" in Brentwood, shared a tailor with Lou Costello, dabbled in prizefighters and bought a piece of a supermarket chain. He was anxious to cooperate with...