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...Navy's big Catalina flying boats crossed and recrossed the vast area where he might have gone down. After 23 endless days they spotted a raft: on it was the bomber's pilot, Captain William T. Cherry Jr. The Navy searched even harder. Next day the good news came: Rickenbacker and two of his crew were found floating in the vast Pacific some 600 miles north of Samoa. Three other crew members were on a tiny island. One, Sergeant Alexander Kaczmarczyk of Torrington, Conn., had died and been buried...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Jo Hayden (Judy Garland), Jimmy Metcalfe (George Murphy) and Harry Palmer (Gene Kelly) have one thing in common: they are smalltime song-&-dancers whose hearts are set on one day appearing at that Pantheon of U.S. vaudeville, The Palace. Jimmy is a sort of Irish George Raft, who loves Jo. Jo is a surprisingly sweet young girl, who unfortunately loves Harry. Harry is a dangerous but successful novelty in musicomedy: a character who begins as a squirrel-collared masher and winds up, without too much grinding of gears, as a hero. In the course of this cinemetamorphosis...
Curious soldiers clustered on a New Guinea riverbank. As the late afternoon sunlight slanted through coconut-palm fronds, a raft drifted around the river bend. Small frizzled-haired Papuan natives guided it slowly to shore. Heedless of cries of "Don't bother, we'll get it for you" from the soldiers on the bank, four Australian soldiers aboard the raft slowly gathered up possessions that only a soldier can truly treasure-firearms, rain capes, a few battered odds & ends. As they turned their sunken eyes shoreward, the shouting and chatter of the spectators ceased. The crowd parted...
Then another raft rounded the bend, and another, until eleven rafts had brought to safety 33 footsore, tattered Australians, remnants of a band of 50 that had battled the Japs on the north side of the Owen Stanley range. Outflanked and outnumbered, for 44 days they had fought off the Japs and beaten their way over jungle trails back to the Allied-held side of the mountains. Haggard faces, tattered uniforms, mute fatigue told a story of privation and courage that won the respectful silence of the other soldiers waiting at the jungle camp...
...feel that; we do. The seamen whose ships have been blown from under them talk of the useless waste because helpless boats are not convoyed. You haven't spoken to such men, I have. The stunned, half-dead sailors adrift for weeks on a raft-you haven't seen them, I have. And "little steel" asks for an increase in wages...