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...subs. Battle Submerged and Sink 'Em All are crammed with more, blending the heroic and the ironic. They tell of how Pharmacist's Mate Wheeler B. Lipes of the Seadragon performed the first submerged appendectomy, a success "with the help of God and a long-handled spoon"; of how the Barb's commandos landed in Japan and blew up a train; of how the Sargo heartbreakingly fired 13 torpedoes at fat targets, only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism plagued U.S. subs for two years); of how the Gato fetched up with...
...thing?" For a dollar, the peddler would produce one of the capsules of white powder he kept hidden just inside the zipper of his pants. Once supplied, the boy and his friends would repair to basements or bedrooms, furtively dissolve the powder with water in a spoon and give each other shots...
...Born Yesterday" has been born in celluloid, with a silver spoon in its mouth. First of all, it's a faithful version of Garson Kanin's play, almost line for line. It has an excellent cast, one which for a change, seems to understand words. And it has Judy Holiday, who played Billie Dawn for years on Broadway. Miss Holliday alone would be enough...
President Colbert (pronounced Cahl-bert) hustled everywhere, greeting swarms of acquaintances with rarely a slip on a first name, meeting new ones with a hearty handshake. When dinnertime came, he held a chrome tray overhead like a gong, whacked it with a spoon, and led the parade of guests to the dining room...
...lard, coffee and fruit juices. G.I. and Korean stevedores ate steadily all day long, casually hacked open 6-lb. tins of pork luncheon meat to make one sandwich, gallon tins of fruit juice for one swallow. Outside one warehouse, a black-bearded U.S. sergeant dug his plastic C-ration spoon into a 10-lb. tin of corned beef with the delicate disdain of an overweight debutante at a smörgasbord...