Word: rafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Bernarr Adolphus ("Body Beautiful") Macfadden, 77, "physcultopathic" ex-publisher of Liberty, True Story, a raft of others, hardy perennial in the Garden of Love: Mary Williamson Macfadden, fiftyish, onetime British beauty contest winner; after 18 years of "perfect union," 15 of separation, days in court without number, seven children (he accused her of "humiliating" him by losing her figure) ; in Miami...
...youngster pulled the wrong lever; it released a two-ton life raft which crashed to the deck below, miraculously injuring nobody else. But he lost a finger in the process...
Monsignor de Ferrari packed the pair on a raft, started off down river with them and several other jungle children for his mission school. In the night, the Kirikas leapt upon a sleeping child. An awakened missionary collared them, saw that támara thorns were in their hands. Thereafter, the Kirikas were bound to the raft with stout ropes...
Dream of Eating. They caught two small fish and once Zamperini grabbed a baby shark by its tail and flipped it into the raft. By the same kind of desperate alertness they caught three small birds and four albatrosses which lit innocently on their rubber boats...
...raft scenes are not so good. Mechanically, there are excellent moments: the initial crash, the soft, strangling sound of the plane as it founders, the angelic strangeness and beauty of the rescuing plane-a machine apotheosized. Other bits are finely conceived: the aching silence as a gull circles the starved men, its ghastly squeal when it is caught. And there are earnest, dignified performances, notably those of MacMurray, Richard Conte and Lloyd Nolan. Yet it is never quite possible to believe that the oceanic anguish is more than a stone's throw from all the food and drink Hollywood...