Word: windrush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wodehouse. Private Stanley Windrush, played with a slightly pained, Bertie Woosterish expression by Ian Carmichael, progresses erratically from Gravestone Barracks, where he wakes up "feeling a little fragile," to an officers' selection board, where he confounds psychiatrists and loses his pants during an obstacle run. In the course of the hurlyburly, Windrush absorbs some of the rules of artful dodging in the service, e.g., "Never give your right name to anybody; otherwise they've got you," gets involved in a harebrained "Operation Hatrack" conceived by "Uncle Bertie," otherwise Brigadier General Bertram Tracepurcel. Uncle Bertie's scheme...
...professor said he could recall no sea rescue in history involving more survivors and pointed out that the Empire Windrush episode could have been a disaster rivaling the sinking of the Titanic, in which 1517 persons were drowned...
...troopship Empire Windrush, bearing British service men and their families home from imperial outposts in the Far and Middle East, was sailing through the Mediterranean at 7 a.m. Sunday when an explosion occurred in its boiler room. Four crew members working in the room were immediately killed and within a half hour the whole ship was aflame...
...lack of excitement aboard the Windrush was definitely the decisive factor in the rescue, Albion said. He praised the conduct of Capt. W. Wilson, "a competent officer who took control of the situation during the first critical moments" and prevented any possible panic...
Albion said the large percentage of military personnel on board the Windrush probably accounted in part for the passengers' calm acceptance of orders...