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...already the challenges of the new age were being met. In late 1950, in a storage shack nicknamed "Siberia" in a shipyard in Groton, Conn., Nautilus began to take shape under the intense, sometimes ruthless direction of Captain Hyman Rickover. Some of the salt-encrusted admirals had sneered at Rickover's folly and his obstreperous methods, obstructed him for five long and crucial years, tried to break up his team and even to get him tossed out of the Navy. It remained for Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations since last August, to realize fully what Nautilus meant...
...Broadway's neons, he sat under a desk lamp, pipe-smoking and writing. Fifteen times Tom rewrote his book. Late in the summer of 1954 he quit TIME and went off to the cranberry boglands of New Jersey's Toms River country to live alone in a shack and polish the final version of his Korean war story...
Most of the intensity of the film, which is based closely on the 1951 Broadway play, is provided by a transplanted Sicilian woman, Serafina Delle Rose. After the death of her smuggler husband, she locks herself up in her Gulf Coast shack and spends three years worshipping his memory and his ashes, which she keeps in an urn in the living room. But three years is a long wait for a woman of Sicilian temperament, and the end of her seclusion is in sight when she finds out that her lamented spouse had been keeping other company. So when...
...Shack Out on 101 (Broidy; Allied Artists) confronts the U.S. motorist-already reduced to a walleyed wreck by the massed assault of saturation traffic, maladjusted headlights, homicidal hitchhikers, kids on bikes, the hydramatic wheeze, small-town radar cops and the finance company - with a new and yet more fiendish horror of the highway: the Communist-controlled hamburger stand...
Take, for instance, the short-order cook at the "shack" in this picture, the one they all call Slob (Lee Marvin). He looks as if he never did anything more subversive than add a slice of forefinger to the chicken salad, but his name is Mr. Gregory, and his game is dirtier than his sandwich board. He steals U.S. scientists and ships them to Russia...