Word: tugboat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayflower promoters had not turned the vessel over to a charitable foundation, as planned. There was hope of fresh cash from rubbernecking admissions during a proposed stay in New York Harbor, but even here the long arm of Old World oppression threatened the hardy ship: back in England, Tugboat Owner Ernest Lister instructed his solicitor to have the Mayflower II seized for unpaid towing fees...
Into the A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters in Washington one day last week waddled Captain William V. Bradley, the lard-bellied ex-tugboat skipper who took over the rackets-ridden International Longshoremen's Association after its expulsion from the A.F.L. in 1953. He was breathing heavily, almost apprehensively-and with good cause. His mission was delicate. He had come to try to persuade President George Meany to take the I.L.A. back into the fold...
...Trouble with Harry (Paramount) is the usual trouble with corpses: people can't let dead enough alone. A little boy (Jerry Mathers), playing in the woods, sees Harry first and runs to tell his mother (Shirley MacLaine). A retired tugboat captain and local poacher (Edmund Gwenn), who has just sent three rounds after a rabbit, finds Harry lying there with a little round blood spot on his forehead. "Oh, my!" he exclaims, for it is not hunting season. He is about to dispose of the evidence when the village spinster (Mildred Natwick) strolls by and. noticing Harry...
...treasured Oscars-but they stole the show. Broadcasting from the Cocoanut Grove, Irene Dunne's performance as straight man was one that even Dean Martin could envy. As for Lolly Parsons, at one moment she was tossing off her lines with all the raffish assurance of Tugboat Annie; the next, she was nearly disappearing from view in brilliant mimicry of the nearsighted Mr. Magoo as she sought to read her elusive script...
...I.L.A.'s month-old strike had cost the port of New York more than 5,000,000 man-hours of work and $350 million in foreign trade. Court delays stalled an effort to enforce the injunction by arresting I.L.A. leaders for contempt. I.L.A. President William Bradley, a longtime tugboat captain, called out the I.L.A.'s tugboat locals. Some liners docked clumsily on their own power. The Queen Mary went to Halifax. I.L.A. locals in other ports, gorged with diverted ships, stalled off Bradley's appeal that they join his strike...