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...break up the long stretches of dialogue. His lurking camera finds unexpected stances and hiding places from which to catch the actors in their ship hoard and barroom life. Full force of storms and brawls come to the audience through the mobile camera eye, and the feeling of close shipboard quarters presses in as a man lies dying in a narrow bunk...
...Caine Mutiny Court Martial (adapted from his novel by Herman Wouk) comes off thoroughly good theater -and not least because it shuns the overtly theatrical. For stage purposes, Novelist Wouk has so backgrounded and built up the court-martial scene of his Caine Mutiny as to suggest a shipboard drama of events through a courtroom drama of character. Charles Laughton has staged the production with a superbly unswerving sense of the whole. Building slowly, the play at length walls in, not the court-martialed Lieut. Maryk, but his accuser, Commander Queeg, skipper of the destroyer-minesweeper U.S.S. Caine...
...Held, in the first opinion written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, that a longshoreman injured in a shipboard fire at Texas City, Texas, was entitled to damages under a federal workmen's compensation act, although his claim was filed after the deadline. Warren said the law should be construed "liberally...
Briefly noting a table with five official Navy models that students try to identify, we moved on to a replica of a ship's bow standing about four feet high. Because many shipboard accidents occur when NROTC lubbers run afoul of the anchor chain, there is a complete anchor rigging to teach Harvard's sailors where not to stand when the anchor drops...
Sloan Simpson, 36, New York City's onetime First Lady, came home after five social-whirling months in Europe and landed her pretty face all over Manhattan's front pages. Smiling brightly and flicking a black-gloved hand for photographers, Sloan (an ex-model) told shipboard reporters, "Let's not get into that," when asked why she had left William O'Dwyer. She is divorced from him, she explained, except in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church (she will go to Mexico to try for a church annulment). She spoke warmly about O'Dwyer...