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...meaning of Dunkirk hits home when Mr. Miniver pilots his speedboat slowly down the Thames estuary with the flotilla of amateur navigators who set out to rescue their beaten Expeditionary Force. The Nazi mentality becomes viciously and pathetically real when Mrs. Miniver disarms a wounded German flyer in her kitchen, then slaps his face for talking Aryan nonsense. World War II is reduced to the compass of an Anderson shelter when the Minivers and their well-scrubbed youngsters ride out an air raid in their own backyard. It is anybody's backyard, anywhere...
Married. George Frederick Schrafft, 22, candy heir, speedboat racer; and Susan Stone Stephenson, sister-in-law of Victor Mature; in Manhattan...
...Sand Point Naval Air station on Lake Washington, Seattle, one grey afternoon last week the Navy fired four revolver shots that splattered dangerously close around a speedboat carrying Seattle Times Reporter Paul O'Neil and crack Photographer Harold F. Smith. Excuse was that they slipped in too close to Navy hangars while maneuvering for pictures of one of the Soviet planes carrying the Russian flying mission. The photographer had to get between the plane and the land in order not to get the naval station, a "naval secret," in the background of the picture. When the occupants...
...physiological theory. The museum was completed last March when Dr. Crile went to Miami, hired a Goodyear blimp, wandered cloudlike over the blue Gulf Stream in search of a manatee. When he at last sighted one in an estuary, he blimped back to shore, boarded a speedboat, bagged it (935 lb.). In Cleveland the manatee, like some twelve score other animals Crile has collected from Lake Tanganyika to Hudson Bay in the past 15 years, has its excised brain, heart, thyroid and adrenal glands on display. Ringmaster Crile's animal act is more elaborate than any Carl Hagenbeck ever...
Berlin declared within 72 hours that a speedboat had sunk a British destroyer; "newly unleashed submarines commanded by virtual novices" had destroyed 192,300 tons of merchant shipping; airplanes had sunk and disabled 16 ships of 102,000 tons west of Ireland and five others of 23,500 tons off the east coast of England and Scotland...