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...SAILOR'S NAME WITHHELD] Pensacola...
Fair to Foul. In Washington, Navy Secretary James Vincent Forrestal, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King and other Navymen wondered about the effect on the U.S. public of this stirring performance and great publicity show. An epoch was ended. As any sailor knows, every fair wind sooner or later blows foul. In the aftermath of every major war which the U.S. has waged in the past 80 years, public sympathy has veered; in the fog of na tional policy, overtaken by its own rust, the Navy has all but foundered...
...admiral-gets up to make a speech, you never can tell what he may say. To 2,000 diners at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, welcoming the Admiral back home last week, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz lapsed into doggerel. The verses, he explained, about a sailor named Patsy McCoy, had been found by a Navy censor, going through the mail...
...Sailor's Delight. In Seattle, a sailor was fished out of the harbor by shore patrolmen; a woman passerby had started to rescue him but let him slip back into the water when she saw that he had no pants...
...Most sailor-on-a-furlough films re just so much bosh and lush thrown together haphazardly but hopefully. However, "Anchors Aweigh" depends on carefully sketched characters and novel variations to achieve its effects. Kelly plays a "sea-wolf" who saves his bashful buddy Clarence-(Sinatra) from drowning and then goes on to act as nurse-maid...