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...Bellinger, U.S.N., 76, a South Carolina-bred early-bird naval aviator who helped test the seaplane's long-range military capacity by flying one of the three NC flying boats in their transatlantic crossing, led during World War II the Atlantic Fleet Air Arm that helped thwart the U-boat menace; of a heart attack; in Clifton Forge...
GARY: THE GUNS OF NAVARONE. Here, gents, is a war film that has absolutely, yes, absolutely, every gimmick you've ever longed for in a film about G.I.s-plus-Limeys v. them Nazis: U-boat chasing, cliff scaling, partisan risings, grim Yanks, suave Britishers, fanatical Greeks, detestable Germans (one nice German), broads, spies, traitors, explosions -- well, we mean, you name it, this flick has it. It also has Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn plus scores of ex-German general staff members. Evenings...
...receive his almost annual goring (a 6-in., 14-stitch groin wound), but, following a one-hour surgical mano a mano with death, was expected to return to the ring by month's end; and West Germany's pugnacious pacifist, Evangelical Church Pastor (and World War I U-boat Skipper) Martin Niemoller, 69, who, while vacationing in Denmark, suffered near fatal injuries in an auto crackup that killed his wife and housekeeper...
...Marine Academy, a skilled skipper famed for his rescues at sea and for evacuating 1,400 people from Singapore aboard the refitted luxury liner America in 1942 while under Japanese bomber attack; of a stroke; in London. His oddest lifesaving exploit occurred off Ireland in 1939, when a Nazi U-boat torpedoed the British freighter Olive Grove only after waiting for her 33-man crew to escape in rowboats, then fired rockets to summon Stedman's liner, the Washington, to the rescue...
What frustrates him for months is that the raider is not a U-boat at all, but a heavily armed surface vessel well disguised as a merchantman. The raider, the Atlantis, flies whatever flag is convenient, and carries its sham to the point of decking seamen out as female passengers-wigs, parasols and all. When a target is sighted, the Atlantis steams close by, runs up the swastika and lowers the false packing cases which hide its guns. The raider's captain, played by Van Heflin, is a gentleman who, in his student days, rowed against Cambridge...