Word: sailoring
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Joseph Stalin last week congratulated Britain's home fleet on sinking the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst (see above). Next day, Moscow's Red Star published a cartoon showing a forlorn Scharnhorst sailor disappearing into the sea. In the foreground frenetic Propaganda Minister Goebbels shouts into a microphone: "Germans, we won a great victory. The German underseas fleet has increased in one stroke by 26,000 tons...
Made of a special unbreakable glass, the mirror is now being supplied by the hundred to soldiers, sailors and airmen. Example of its usefulness: a sailor adrift off Florida recently got rescued by signaling to a blimp six miles away...
...know how to spell "T-o-m," or both, for there is one mistake in your otherwise splendid article on me and my boxing museum (TIME, Nov. 22). You quote me as saying Jack Sharkey was the fifth greatest fighter. Of course, it was Tom Sharkey, the original sailor boy, whom I meant. Tom was a real fighter...
Coast Guardsman Victor Mature's molars were tugged out in Boston-two of the few that never showed in photographs. He confided to the local press the things most desired by every sailor when he reaches port: a soft bed and a dirty joke...
...life must go on alone. Grandfather explains to the brokenhearted father that the boy's brief, easygoing, generous, small-town life was worth dying for because it was worth living. That night the father goes back for the first time to the store. A shy young sailor (Henry Morgan) turns up. He is the dead boy's closest comrade. Together the boy's father and his friend clink cut-glass cups of loganberry wine, in the mild Puritan salute which had first linked father & son as mature males...