Word: torpedoings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woman on the Beach (RKO Radio) is sullen-faced Joan Bennett, one of Hollywood's most efficient players of loose women, in an unusual and artful thriller. Along the sand comes a Coast Guardsman (Robert Ryan), still shaky enough from an experience with a torpedo to be excused some of his sins in this film. His sins are extensive and, for a movie hero, pretty human. He is engaged to a nice girl (Nan Leslie), but when she proves too nice and cautious to marry him in haste, he takes up with Joan, begins making love...
...first recipient of a scholarship established in memory of Newbold R. Landon '42, who died when his torpedo plane exploded after a direct hit by a Japanese anti-aircraft shell, is Charles R. Conklin '48, of Delta, Colorado, and the Brunswick Hotel, the University announced yesterday. Charles M. Gray '49, of Urbana, Illinois, and Kirkland House, was named as winner of the annual Jacob Wendall scholarship at the same time...
...only a 50-50 chance; both U.S. and British navies had counseled against it. That it succeeded, Morison concludes, proves that it was "fundamentally sound and wise." But, he adds, the difference between success and failure is sometimes less a matter of wisdom than of inches in a torpedo's course or "a few yards deflection in the fall of a.salvo...
Congressman John K. Kennedy '40 (R-Mass.), who served in the Pacific theater during World War II on motor torpedo boats...
...torpedo shook C.M.U. from stem to stern, although C.M.U. was not yet sunk and Harry Bridges and comrades were not yet licked. Bridges was on his way to Honolulu to negotiate a longshoremen's contract. But in the Manhattan headquarters of N.M.U., Curran's Communist pals, now his bitter, open enemies, scurried around like enraged locusts, shrilling propaganda...