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Crews normally do about three long voyages a year, with eight weeks of fun and high living sandwiched in between. Men seldom travel alone or get home to see the devastation wrought by Allied bombers. Each crew is entertained as an isolated unit, to keep the depressing news of lost subs and comrades from circulating too freely via the scuttlebutt...
...demands of war by extreme restriction of private requirements." The homeland had stood up to the bombings so well that it could, he said, now be held up to the fighting forces "as an example of equal heroism and spirit of sacrifice." Indirectly, he testified to the destruction wrought upon Germany by the night-bombers of the R.A.F. the day-bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Matter-of-factly, as though there were no point in further denial, he referred to "the ruins of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Kassel" and of "all other towns, great and small," which...
...clock he has his invariable breakfast of one egg, one piece of white toast, one cup of black coffee. Shortly before 9, he walks to his four-car garage, steps into his 1941 black Lincoln Zephyr, swings around a fishpond in his front yard and out through wrought-iron gates. In ten minutes, he drives to his Santa Monica factory. He steps from his car, walks an exact 24 steps into his walnut-paneled private office, sits down behind his carved walnut desk covered with his own pattern of letters, engineering reports, and half a dozen straight-stemmed pipes...
Across the room is a curious Frisian grandfather clock of the 17th century, and the Elizabethan mantlepiece next to it has not been dusted since 1583. The fireback is decorated with "Susannah and the Elders" in wrought iron, while tapestries and a Gothic cabinet effectively hide the crumbling north wall...
...chandelier is 16th century Spanish wrought iron, like the crane supporting the lantern over the front door. Seven thousand Delft tiles bearing pictures of windmills and Dutch barmaids completely cover the walls of the Sanctum Lobby. No two of these are alike, the Poonsters are told. Not all of the relics are imported, however...