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POLITICAL SELF-PORTRAIT-John Wheelwright-Bruce Humphries...
...Arthur Wheelwright travelling fellowship to Leonard J. Currie, of Arlington...
...current number should almost certainly prove interesting. Without mentioning each item separately, it might be said that some of the short stories are extremely good, and that neither the article on nineteenth-century architecture by John Wheelwright, nor the professional and faculty book-reviews, has at all the air of being given away free with the issue. It should be possible to read the number for pleasure, and not simply from a sense of duty...
Thunder Afloat (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a glorification of the "ash can fleet"-the homely little sub chasers whose depth bombs helped break the back of the German submarine campaign in 1918. Written by M.G.M. publicity man Ralph Wheelwright, who served on a sub chaser in World War I, with the collaboration of retired Navy Commander Harvey S. Haislip, produced with the approval and assistance of the Navy Department, which placed the remnant of the Navy's 500 World War chasers at the studio's disposal, Thunder Afloat is an able and reasonably authentic document. As entertainment...
...Francisco was a jerry-built village with two hotels, two half-finished wharves, 800 inhabitants. That year James W. Marshall, a wheelwright, discovered gold in the tailrace of James Augustus Suiter's sawmill at Coloma. Twenty-one years later San Francisco had shot up to a polyglot giant of 149,473 inhabitants, a challenger of New York's financial might, a cultural threat to Boston. That year San Francisco went on a three-day spree. Officially it celebrated completion of the transcontinental railroad-"Uncle Sam's Waistband-He would burst without it." Historically it celebrated...