Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Engaged. Elizabeth Gray Morison, dark, pretty, seafaring daughter of HaVard's Sailor-Historian Samuel Eliot Morison (Second Voyage of Columbus); and Edward D. W. Spingarn, Trinity College economics instructor and son of the late great Critic-Libertarian Joel Elias Spingarn; in Boston...
...sinister adjectives accumulate, perhaps because they are already in the mind. Leonard Ross' Hyman Kaplan story is humorous, of course, and so are the Arthur Kober and Donald Moffat and Richard Lockridge stories. But far more typical are the bitter Jerome Weidman pieces, Irwin Shaw's savage "Sailor off the Bremen" and the incredibly sinister "Wet Saturday" of John Collier. One explanation--perhaps minor, but none the less interesting--suggests itself: the collection represents fifteen and a half years, in that some of the stories actually go back to 1925; but the bulk of the material was published between...
...plugs for John E. Green, the second mate, and Captain Cronin. They were the two most popular officers that I have ever seen on a ship. . . . An example of how Captain Cronin is capable of quelling trouble and solving problems without creating unnecessary ill feeling: One day a troublesome sailor, who hated the cook seemingly for no other reason than the cook was a Greek, swept into the captain's office and wanted to know how much it would cost to bust up the galley. Much to the troublemaker's amazement, the "Old Man" sat down and seriously...
...smoldering Balkans, then on to Turkey, Syria, Palestine. With the British forces in Egypt he covered the Italian drive on Sidi Bârrani. Later he flew with the R. A. F. on bombing missions, toured the Mediterranean on a British cruiser. (Respectful tars christened him "Barnacle Barnes, the Sailor.") When Mussolini's invincible troops invaded Greece, Ralph Barnes boarded a British warship, sailed for Athens...
Fletcher Martin was born in Colorado, son of an ambulant small-town newspaper man who made him a journeyman printer at 12. At 15, Fletcher Martin ran away, has been on the loose ever since. As a lumberman, harvester and sailor, he discovered art by drawing dirty pictures for his pals. He joined the Navy to get three squares a day, became a top-notch boxer, began painting seriously when he got out in 1926. Settling in California, he rapidly won museum awards, Federal mural jobs; had one-man shows in Los Angeles and in San Diego...