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...unstarred cast and direction that supplies suspense of Alfred Hitchcock calibre lift Five Came Back out of the Swiss Family Hollywood class and up to the distinction of a sort of Stagecoach on wings. Director of Five Came Back was 35-year-old John Villiers Farrow, an Australian-born seaman-author-director and soldier of fortune who jumped a ship in Honolulu, worked his way to Hollywood in 1927, has been a cinemauthor and director there, as well as in France and Austria. As a low-budget director at Warner Bros, he fired no worlds, this year tried his luck...
...with shrill voices among themselves; debating whether to stay or go. Later the rain came, slanting, with an edge. Inside the little cabin the drops knifed against the window with a hollow, drumming sound. In such a storm the bell sounded, there was the clatter of casting off, a seaman's voice rasped somewhere down by the shore...
...principle that all men are brothers after their bodies are broken, a U. S. Naval physician and a Belgian Army doctor in 1921 conceived that military medicos should cooperate in peace to promote healing in war. Last week Captain William Seaman Bainbridge and Colonel Jules Voncken, founders of the International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy, had a reunion in Washington with colleagues from 33 other countries...
...Walt Disney cartoons, got into a discussion over whether icebergs should be called "he" or "she." On Saturday His Majesty's Surgeon Captain Henry Ellis Yeo White and the Empress' Dr. Joseph Maxwell made an emergency trip to the Glasgow, took out the appendix of a seaman...
Through a pea-soup fog the fishing schooner Isabelle Parker, out of Boston, footed it north one night last week toward Brown's Bank, off the Nova Scotia coast. To Seaman Fred Bourque, on the bow watch, the fog seemed to thicken as dawn came. Suddenly, 20 feet dead ahead, a great silhouette showed. Fred Bourque shouted a warning to Billy Oilman at the wheel, ran aft. In less time than it takes to gut a cod the Isabelle Parker had piled halfway through the Gloucesterman Edith C. Rose, southbound with her hold stuffed with catch from Brown...