Word: seamen
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...classmate Whiz (Marilyn Whisman [Monsour]'45-'44) organized a Radcliffe Entertainment Unit,to bring cheer to men in bleak barracks. In aBoston club for seamen, the stage lacking steps,we ran down an aisle and jumped three feet to getaboard, our inebriated audience meanwhile snoringloudly through the show...
...SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE, MANHATTAN...
...SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE, MANHATTAN...
...entourage headed by the Prince of Wales as surrogate for his frail, ailing mother, cast off from Portsmouth quay and steamed toward the flotilla. It was an awesome sight: 165 British ships of the line, plus vessels from 14 other nations including the U.S. and Japan. At a signal, seamen scurried to attention on decks and yardarms, and the warships boomed out cannon salutes as the yacht passed by. For three hours that evening, in a dazzling display of modern technology, every ship was outlined against the somber sky by hundreds of electric lights. It was, wrote a stunned British...
...special committee wrote an impassioned letter to the Secretary of the Navy pleading that he consider "the close and intimate conditions of life aboard ship, the necessity for the highest possible degree of unity and esprit-de-corps, and the requirements of morale," before allowing black seamen to fight alongside white sailors...