Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon, Harry Truman attended a ship's smoker, intently following the Navy boxers. When the portable ring collapsed and a post struck Bosun's Mate H. W. Beemans, the President scurried below deck to sick bay, checked the sailor's injuries and stayed for a short chat...
Outside the tangled wreckage, a sailor from a forward car held his baby in his arms, clawed wildly at acetylene-torch crews cutting into the mangled steel. Just before the crash, his wife had entered the observation...
Anchors Aweigh (M.G.M.), a shore-leave saga with music, dancing, and Technicolor's full palette, is easily the pleasantest couple of hours that can be bought currently in a movie theater. Its standard-bearers : Gene Kelly, a sailor fairly enough described as the Sea Wolf; his sidekick Frank Sinatra, a shy type but eager to learn; Kathryn Grayson, a movie extra who wants to become a famous singer; and José Iturbi, who is surprised but very nice about it when Miss Grayson, being kidded by the sailors, turns up for an audition...
...feeling that there's something wrong with me"). Kelly dances beautifully and Sinatra sings the roof off. They seem genuinely concerned over their deception of the girl. They seem genuinely worried when they find their own affections setting them at odds - a difficulty nicely solved, for Sailor Sinatra, by warmhearted Waitress Pamela Britton. And their four days' strenuous romancing is as rich as fruitcake with diversions and digressions. Among the best...
...Army and the Navy; 2) pretends suicide; 3) is arraigned as the murderer of his "twin." In the long run, through the kindness of Scripters Arthur Kober and Frank Gabrielson, he wiggles out of practically everything and sets off to serve his country, happy in the illusion that a sailor's life is unassailably monastic...