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...moviegoers see is less a ship than a floating prep school: Captain James Cagney is as fussy, opinionated and domineering as any self-seeking headmaster; Henry Fonda, the cargo officer who continually sighs to be in combat, fills the role of a young Mr. Chips; the crew's schoolboy pranks are only thinly disguised as adult antics. Even when the sailors, with binoculars glued to their eyes, are squirming with delight at the glimpse of a nurse taking a shower, it is merely boyish high spirits rather than voyeurism. Similarly, an unexpected shore leave on the island of Elysium...
EVERY American schoolboy knows that Betsy Ross made the first U.S. flag for George Washington and the Continental Congress in 1777. It makes a pretty story, but historians are not so sure of its accuracy. Through the years, they have searched for evidence to support a variety of theories concerning the origin of the U.S. flag -that it derived from British and Dutch flags, that it evolved out of designs of the different colonies, that it came from George Washington's coat of arms. But today, all that is known is that on June 14, 1777. the Philadelphia Congress...
...Infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, "lean and slipper'd pantaloon," "second childishness...
...stuff of Irish patriotism. But most of these stories, dealing with humble Dubliners, plead nothing more special than the heartbreak of man's own making. A clerk breaks a leg running out on the girl he gets into trouble; his father's cast-off shoes hurt a schoolboy's heart much more than his feet; a tottering old watchman asks a Mass for the soul of a soldier he had killed as a youth. Together, such simple and tenderly told stories make a haunting picture of a Dublin not so very different, after 40 years, from...
Poker Price. He began by racing motorcycles. As a schoolboy, he played poker to raise the price of bike rentals, and he competed wherever he could-from the Milan piazza to the open-road races through northern and central Italy. He cracked up soon and often, but he kept coming back. In 1940, when he was 21, he graduated to autos. Small, stock Fiats were his first mounts; for his first big races in the Mille Miglia and at Palermo, he managed to get hold of a Ferrari. Motor trouble forced him out each time...