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Through the brunt of the storm, the well-clad Blitzen made seven to eight knots, at a cost of three jib sheets. With heavy seas still running at dawn and the boat heeling at 45°, Co-Owner Ernie Grates took a sailor's chance: to save a spar, he shinnied 50 perilous feet aloft to replace lost pins in a spreader. (Co-Owner Murray Knapp, who is cook and bottle washer, distinguished himself by being beaned with a flying frying...
...sailor has come closer to being burned alive than anybody who has ever survived. Last week the Naval Medical Bulletin reported that flaming gasoline had burned 83% of the body surface of a 19-year-old sailor...
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...