Word: subs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comic lead, is probably the loudest and most un ingratiating actress on the stage today; Gene Lockhart, her co-star, is an established actor in his own right, but he has no singing voice, and this is, unfortunately, a prerequisite in a musical. There is, of course, a romantic sub-plot running through the play, but since neither of its principals can either sing or dance, it seems hardly worth mentioning...
When the Norfolk is commissioned next August, she will be manned by 500 men and 40 officers, will slice through the water at a 30-knot clip. Her job, when she joins the fleet: to lead the Navy's hunter-killer antisubmarine teams. Sub warfare is getting so complicated that the Navy needs a double-barreled killer, a vessel big enough to act as a command ship for the air-sea teams, and tough enough to help them at the final kill...
...wholly right? According to Sir Walter, he is in many ways as wrong as the psychologist. At their worst, courtroom judgments are nonmoral, stressing too much the deed and too little the doer, treating the offender simply as a nuisance that must be removed. At their best, they are sub-Christian. "They witness to a moral order which commands a deep respect. But [they miss] the supreme heights of human experience . . . for [they leave] room for no gospel and no salvation...
...famous old sub name. Long before Robert Fulton puffed up the Hudson in his steamboat in 1807, he was experimenting with a long, platter-shaped submarine named Nautilus.* Jules Verne used the name for the spike-nosed boat commanded by Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Over the years, two U.S. Navy subs have been christened Nautilus, and the best-remembered of them was the monster 3,000-ton boat of World War II fame. Launched in 1930, she was huge and .deadly, twice as big as ordinary fleet boats, with a pair of six-inch guns...
...meets once a week, presented a combination fashion show, beauty pageant and musical comedy, with slight Old Howard over-tones. (At least there was a runway, making every seat a front row seat.) The girls were extremely nervous and the narrator found herself forced to ad lib when the "sub-deb in the fetching pink chiffon formal," failed to appear. During this portion of the program, a paid pianist ground away relentlessly, providing suitably nondescript background music...