Word: tugboat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never Conned Twice. No sooner had he married the President's youngest sister, Jean, in 1956 (Cardinal Spellman officiated), than Smith got involved in the Kennedy political fortunes. In 1958, he left his job as vice president of his own family's tugboat firm to run the Boston headquarters of Jack's Massachusetts Senate campaign. Up to then, Smith's only political connection was through his grandfather, William E. Cleary, who built the tugboat fortune and 40 years ago served three terms in Congress. Steve caught on to politics fast. Said a veteran of that first...
...film's Billy Budd is Terence Stamp, 23, son of a Thames tugboat man. His Michelangelic good looks and country-boy smile make Billy's unaffected virtue believable where a better-known actor might have failed. As Captain Vere, Peter Ustinov shuns mawkishness in his role of naval Pilate; he reveals Vere's humanity subtly, and when Billy's wonderful and cruel farewell rings out, Vere stands destroyed by what he has had to do. Robert Ryan is the terrible Mister Claggart who presides so zealously at floggings: once, after counting out ten lashes while...
...placed on the production perforator, which can punch out more than 30 finished rolls at a time. A second manufacturer, Aeolian Music Rolls of Glendale. Calif., joined the roll-making ranks 1½ years ago, is currently turning out 1.500 rolls a day. In Palisades Park. N.J., ex-Tugboat Captain John Duffy, 39, who deals in both new and rebuilt player pianos, has seen his business grow from a kitchen-and-basement operation to a 14-man organization in four years. Duffy grossed $220,000 in 1961 and expects to go to $500.000 this year...
...spartanism paid off in a performance-under the brilliant direction of Sir Carol Reed-which delivered astonishing proof that her talents were more than physical. She had little to do, but she did it to perfection, as the somber mistress of a series of doomed World War II tugboat skippers, managing to suggest the awesome fears just beneath the surface of the dearly bought frivolities...
Died. Anton Otto Fischer, 80, preeminent U.S. illustrator of sea stories (including the Saturday Evening Post's Tugboat Annie and Colin Glencannon series), a droll, Bavarian-born artist who acquired his blue water palette during eight youthful years on windjammers; of a heart attack; in Woodstock...