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James Stewart, as the picture begins, is a $70,000 third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. He is called back into the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel and assigned to SAC. He hates it at first, but he takes his lumps in the B-36s (including a crash in Greenland at 40° below), goes on to get his kicks from the world's fastest (more than 600 m.p.h.) operational jet bombers, the B-47s. By the time his tour is up, he is ready to sign on with the Air Force as a professional...
Strategic Air Command (Paramount) is one soaring, supercolossal recruiting poster. It tells the story of the men and machines whose job it is to be so good at their job that they will never have to do it. SAC is "the finger," as airmen call it, of the U.S. air arm, the corps that may have to carry The Bomb. The point of this picture: "We're the only thing that's keeping the peace." Though the story seldom gets off the ground, the planes do, and the camera follows them through some of the most majestic scenes...
...statistics, has been Jimmy's wife before (in The Stratton Story and The Glenn Miller Story), and by now she can play the part in her sleep. Sometimes, in fact, she seems to do so. Frank Lovejoy, who plays General Curtis E. LeMay. the tough boss of SAC, does an excellent imitation of that famous cigargoyle...
...Until 1960, U.S. supremacy in strategic air power will continue to deter the Russians from risking all-out war. SAC's nuclear bombers, the British reason, are already in a position to cripple the Soviet Union, whereas the Red air force is still incapable of knocking...
...Chidlaw's desk are three phones, colored red, white and black, for direct lines to his units, SAC headquarters and the Pentagon. His command is one of the Bell System's biggest customers (phone bill: some $22 million last year). In one recent test an air general at the Colorado headquarters picked up a hot phone to call Pentagon Command Post. In exactly three seconds came the reply from Washington: "Pentagon Command Post." "This is a communications check," the general said. "Please disregard." Canada headquarters answered in 5 seconds, Newfoundland in 10, Alaska in 15. (For some pictures...