Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a less constant tempo, with some cutting, particularly in the extraneous and overly familiar episodes on shore-the wartime romance, the seaman's return to his bombed home, his faithless wife-The Cruel Sea would have been far more effective. As it is, the audience may be tempted after two hours to agree with the Captain when he says at the end of the film; "Two U-boats in five years. That's not very much, is it? R. E. OLDENBURG
...great crowd on the beach watched him make his flights: two passes over the course in each direction to average out the wind. He flew just off the shore at 50 feet above the water, and when he finished he did a triumphant barrel roll to entertain the beach sitters. The Royal Aero Club announced that he had broken the record, but Airman Duke was not satisfied. After an early supper of cold roast beef, he made four more runs. His average speed of 727.6 m.p.h. exceeded the previous record (made by U.S.A.F. Lieut. Colonel William Barns-TIME. July...
...nation is more torn between the culture of East and West than modern Turkey. Most of its artists take their stand on the western shore of the Bosporus, doing second-rate imitations of European art. Others occupy the eastern bank, and turn out miniature paintings, inlays and rugs of the sort traditionally associated with Persia. One of Turkey's best contemporary painters is an artist named Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu, who has one foot firmly planted on either side of the Bosporus, paints pictures that could never have been done farther east of Paris or west of Bagdad...
From the Lake Erie shore east of Toledo rose a droning peep-pop of small arms. Occasionally, the peepers' chorus was lost in the bullfrog boom of a heavy Army artillery piece sullenly bellowing from a nearby ordnance depot. Then, for nearly a mile along the lake front, the small-arms drone, insistent and incessant, was heard again. Last week, with something of the sound of mock war, the National Rifle and Pistol Matches were in full crackle at Ohio's Camp Perry. More than 1,300 sharpshooters, the deadliest of U.S. deadeyes, plunked slug after slug through...
Noting that 21 U.S. Navy shore stations in the South still follow local custom in segregating Negro and white civilian employees, Navy Secretary Anderson last week verbally requested shore station commanding officers to put an end to separate facilities. Then Anderson heard that some of his C.O.s would ignore the request until they got written orders. Anderson obliged; his aides wrote off a directive and ordered a report on progress in 60 days...