Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: U.S. Navy Ensign Frank Pulver feels unappreciated as usual, Fact2: Insigna Skouras and Dolan do n't take Pulver while despising captain, Fact3: captain refuses to grant leave to seaman named Bruno to attend daughter 's funeral back home, Fact4: company of nurses land on nearby atoll, Fact5: Morton In need of ends up owing life to Pulver emergency surgery
Output (English): U.S. Navy Ensign Frank Pulver Robert Walker Jr. feels unappreciated, as usual. Even when he personally aims a sharp object into the hindquarters of the hated Captain Morton Burl Ives, the happy crew cannot imagine that the alltalk, noaction Pulver could be behind it. A poll to guess at the identity of the asssassin results in votes for almost everyone except Pulver, which he bitterly resents. Ship mates like Billings Larry Hagman, Insigna James Farentino, Skouras James Coco and Dolan Jack Nicholson dont take Pulver seriously while despising the captain, who refuses to grant leave to a seaman named Bruno Tommy Sands to attend his daughters funeral back home. Doc Walter Matthau is the only one aboard who believes in Pulvers potential at all. At sea for months at a time, Pulver is unable to indulge his greatest interest, women, until a company of nurses land on a nearby atoll. The head nurse Kay Medford is pleased to meet him when Pulver introduces himself as a doctor serving on a destroyer, but young nurse Scotty Millie Perkins suspects the truth and a smitten Pulver confesses it to her, that hes no doctor and nothing more than a junior officer on the worst ship in the Navy. Bruno becomes so deranged, he attempts to kill the captain. Pulver reluctantly intervenes, but the captain falls overboard, and is about to drown until Pulver lowers a life raft and dives in to save him. Separated from their ship, with the crew unaware for hours that they are missing, Pulver and Morton bicker aboard the raft. The ensign takes notes while the delusional captain reveals dark secrets about his past. In need of emergency surgery, Morton ends up owing his life yet again to Pulver, who follows Docs instructions over a radio and removes the captains appendix. Back aboard ship, Mortons natural tendencies resurface and he tries to return to his martinet ways. Although Pulver has the goods on him now he shows genuine compassion for the captain and convinces him to leave the ship for his own wellbeing. Morton takes his advice and departs, turning over command to the popular LaSeur Gerald S. OLoughlin.