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Robertson plays Kennedy: a tough skipper with a soft shoulder; a good head ("he wrote a book, or sumpin'" a crewman remarks) but with a capacity for human error (he rams his boat into the dock, then gets it cut in half by a Japanese destroyer). Above all "the skinny, boyish lieutenant from Boston" is a fount of homely wisdom. One can sense the echo, if only dimly, of the famous Kennedy rhetoric: "They'll do a good job for us" he says of his crew, "if we do one for them...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Robertson Is Thud In 'PT 109' | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...partner for boxer Max Baer. Baer moved on to Hollywood as a slapstick comedian; Owen left him and started up the sawdust trail as an evangelist. As Owen explains it, Jesus came down one night to call him to the pulpit. Jesus said "Come on Jerry, I'se got sumpin' for you--I'm gone make you a fisher of men." Then Jesus dropped into the background to brush up on his grammar, and Jerry Owen baited his hook...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 10/11/1951 | See Source »

...Must be sumpin' big's going to 'appen 'ere." The President also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Almost | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...stove-lid or a sumpin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BALLAD OF THE DISCUS. | 5/15/1882 | See Source »

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