Word: wahoo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hanson: The Lament for Beowulf (Howard Hanson conducting the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra and Eastman School of Music Chorus; Mercury, mono and stereo). An early (1925), timbrel-thumping excursion into myth that seems as far from Anglo-Saxon England as Composer Hanson's birthplace (Wahoo, Neb.). The chorus protests too much, but in the gently welling final eulogy, the work stirs with a sweetly nostalgic, gracefully dappled light...
...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. Jayne Mansfield has such trouble speaking English that some customers may holler for subtitles, but Kenneth More manages to say wahoo with a sly British accent in this fairly successful attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera...
...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. Jayne Mansfield has such trouble speaking English that some customers may holler for subtitles, but Kenneth More manages to say wahoo with a sly British accent in this fairly successful attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A genie, Cyclops and a floppy dragon conspiring against human types in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy...
...playmate would seal off most of the decks of a couple of rowboats, invert the craft on the river, poke their heads into the unsealed air pockets and stage mock U-boat fights. Annapolis trained, with an outstanding submariner record in World War II and Korea (Trutta, Tang, Wahoo), Anderson was tapped for duty with Admiral Hyman Rickover's NRB (Naval Reactors Branch) in January 1956. First came an interview with the caustic godfather of the atomic sub. The Rickover Takeover was part of Navy lore, including such props as a chair with shortened front legs, designed to slide...
...June, the young officer slated by the Navy to do the job flew to Washington to brief President Eisenhower on the possibilities. Nautilus' commanding officer: Commander William R. Anderson, 37, Tennessee-born Annapolis standout (class of '42), submariner veteran of Tarpon, Narwhal, Trutta, Sarda, Tang and Wahoo in World War II and the cold war, recent staffer in the Atomic Energy Commission. After Anderson's June briefing, the President gave the Navy its orders: Go ahead. And as he pulled out of Pearl Harbor last fortnight and set course almost due north toward the Aleutians...