Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most notable performance (and the one which best shows off Director Wyler's skill) is given by ex-Paratrooper Harold Russell, 32. Cast as a handicapped sailor named Homer Parrish, Russell actually plays himself. He is no actor and no one pretends that he is, but his performance is more affecting than any professional's could be. Director Wyler merely surrounded Russell with plot and let the cameraman follow the calm, strong, unhandsome Russell face. The audience fills in all the emotion that is needed as the unembarrassed camera studies the two skillfully articulated metal hooks that Russell...
Unreconverted. In Seattle, Sailor Thomas Washington climbed atop a five-story hotel, tore bricks out of the chimney, heaved them down at pedestrians, after 30 minutes of action (no casualties) was captured, explained that he was "sore at civilians...
During the War, the CIO's National Maritime Union and the A. F. of L.'s Seamen's International Union and Sailor's Union of the Pacific managed to keep whatever strife occurred with the companies entirely within the family. When the sailors "hit the bricks" in June of this year the companies looked to Washington to find out how much the government would subsidize them, so that they could, in turn, give their sailors a wage boost...
...those intellectual girls . . . who are unable to see a male soul without wanting to get behind it and shove"). The plot is an intricate counterpoint of love-at-first-sight, financial skullduggery in shipping circles, and Berty's appearance at a ball, disguised as Sindbad the Sailor...
Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, British royal princesses, took a leaf from their sailor father's logbook. With 30 other girls of the Windsor Sea Rangers Troop, they went down to the sea for a few days in a motor torpedo boat. Elizabeth, 20, lit the galley fire, peeled potatoes, made breakfast. Margaret Rose, 15, scrubbed the deck, polished up the brass...