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Tired, old, the Marblehead throbbed as she gathered speed and the sky spewed Jap bombers. Over & over again they came. On the deck of the Marblehead a bomb smashed home. She heeled, shuddered, spit flames from her shattered deck. Her quartermaster sang out: "Steering gear's gone...
...Body plant at Flint. Thickset, horny-handed Bud Goodman is converting the plant 100% to tanks. He welds them by a new process that saves four-fifths of the machining time, bends them into shape on 480-ton presses, maneuvers them on 30-ton jigs like ducks on a spit. As the new assembly lines spring to life, Bud Goodman trots around them so swiftly he seems always to be jumping out from under his hat; he peers at his machinery like a farmer eyeing his land. He knows his men down to their latest babies, his machines...
West of the U.S. naval base at St. John's, Newfoundland, a long spit of land juts southwest toward the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Lieut. Commander Ralph Hickox, skipper of the elderly flush-deck destroyer Truxtun, knew he was somewhere near the end of the spit, but he could not see. The wind was blowing more than 60 miles an hour and low-flying scud dropped the visibility toward zero. The Truxtun ran aground. So did the naval supply ship Pollux. The waves, pounding in like sledgehammers to the base of a 200-ft. cliff, began...
Although Cagney is much better than his thankless role, the real heroes of Captains are Director Michael Curtiz and his five cameramen, who caught the matchless greens and browns of Canada's infinite north-country; the black-and-crimson spit & polish of the Northwest Mounties; the kaleidoscopic carnival of the training field; the silver splash of bushers' planes plopping into lonely lakes; the ominous shine of penguin-bellied bombers groaning up from the Newfoundland shore on their weary way to England...
...interviewed at an institute for child guidance, Dr. Levy chose 20 choice examples of overprotective mothers-nine overdominant, eleven overindulgent-for detailed study. Typical child-tyrants made these mothers prepare meals at any capricious hour, threw their food on the floor if it displeased them, insulted their mothers and spit at them...