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Most of the 200-man crew were saved -including the skipper, 33-year-old Lieut. Commander Douglas M. Swift, and his "exec," Lieut. Robert M. Morgenthau, 24-year-old son of the Secretary of the Treasury. Among the missing: Lieut. George E. Haines, 24, who swam-about with a life preserver, helping the injured. When rescue came, he was gone...
Partially to compensate for the lack of a parade, Soviet officialdom declared a Charlie Chaplin festival, ordered a Shakespeare revival. Last year admiring Russians sent Chaplin a bear cub in the care of Tanker Skipper Mihail Katzel (see cut). Last week, at a gala showing of The Gold Rush (with sound), Red intellectuals again saluted the little man who, in Russian eyes, can do no wrong. Keynoted Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theater: "Who are these . . . mercenary tricksters of the Hearst and McCormick tabloid press . . . who started slinging mud . . . morally to discredit Chaplin's name...
...skipper, an anti-fascist, picks up Bogart and his fellow fugitives in an open boat and they help him, after the line of narration has been broken up by flashbacks and flashbacks within flashbacks to give us an idea of what nice fellows the convicts were before they were sent to French Guiana. It looked like a justification...
...Navy's destroyers get a lot of the dirty work and seldom get much glory. But honors rained down on one destroyer last week. She received a Presidential unit citation and her skipper, handsome, ruddy Commander Donald J. MacDonald had a seventh medal pinned upon his chest. It made him the most decorated U.S. naval officer of this...
Next day angry, pride-wounded Skipper Jockie sued Hotel Proprietor Meyer for $800 damages. Magistrate Willem van Lingen ordered a payment of $200-plus-costs to the plaintiff...