Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ocean racers have been produced from the Tripp-designed mold. At least four, and probably more, will follow. After last week's triumph, many an ocean sailor was eying one of Designer Tripp's Block Island Forties for himself...
Years Ahead. P-B's success is tied to one man. President Walter Heber Wheeler. 61. Towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Walter Wheeler was an All-Eastern football tackle at Harvard in 1916, a subchaser skipper and Navy Cross winner in World War I, and a champion sailor. He joined the company in 1919, when it was a struggling small business directed by his stepfather, the late Walter H. Bowes. Bowes teamed with Inventor Arthur H. Pitney to develop the first crude postage meter. Wheeler went to Washington in 1920, presided over the demonstration of the machine that...
...shipped as fireman on a steamer, fished off the Grand Banks, finally got his master's papers and wound up part owner of a schooner that was supposed to carry passengers from Hawaii to Tahiti. Only when his ship piled up in a gale did the handsome blond sailor finally agree to take a Hollywood offer and a crack at pictures...
...actors give considerably better than they get. Eartha Kitt is Anna, and her extraordinary animal glitter makes her histrionic limitations irrelevant. Sammy Davis Jr. is Danny, the oversexed sailor, and there are at least three major scenes in which Sammy, with superhuman energy, takes over the screen like a blackface Bugs Bunny...
...Weygand looked like a little rat in a trap -caught. Petain looked like a great old image. Darlan trying to show the bluff sailor. And the politicians snatching at everything. I thought they were a hopeless...