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...miles out of New York, plunging home through the tossing seas, the Schodack's watch spotted a flaring distress signal. As quickly as she could make it, the Schodack was at the side of the 8,181-ton Norwegian freighter Smaragd, foundering in the tumbled, ocean with a sodden cargo of coke, a crew of 18 and the captain's wife and daughter aboard. First boat the Schodack put overside was lost...
...Lizz. It broke off when the O'Neills collected $1,000 after their son was run over. Written in the same slow tempo as Farrell's earlier works, with characters who were fatuous when they were not brutal, it gave an even more dispiriting picture of a sodden, sullen, sick environment, revealed no new facet of either Farrell's talent or of the life of the neighborhood...
Rightist General Miguel Aranda, commanding the mud-sodden, zigzag line from Teruel to the Mediterranean, issued a "Fight, rain or no rain!" order but Rightist troops inched forward only five miles to take the town of Portell before being halted...
...thoughtful story, by Lieut. Commander Frank Wead (Ceiling Zero, China Clipper), conceives two sodden-nerved men, one a swaggering, hard-living and egotistic pilot (Clark Gable), the other his patient, understanding mechanic (Spencer Tracy). On the fear-tortured mind of the flyer's wife (Myrna Loy) their almost brutal fatalism rasps like a file. Credit for blending this grounded mental conflict with the melodrama of wings in the air, screaming struts and whining motors goes to Director Victor Fleming (Captains Courageous). Not the least of his accomplishments was to exact performances that verge on reality from pert, actressy Myrna...
...Pops began, when the red oars flashed and a big voice in a little body called "Stroke," when you, Vag, decided to call up the girl you met at the Radcliffe tea one snowy January, and when she was out four successive nights you felt empty and dull and sodden...