Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over Mobile, Ala. last week, two Air Force transports - a four-engine C124 Globemaster and a two-engine C-47-collided in midair, and fell with a window-rattling roar. All 15 people aboard the two ships-among them three returning Korean Army veterans and a mother & child -died when the planes crashed on the outskirts of town...
...payday for the 3,000 men aboard the U.S.S. Midway, anchored off the French Riviera. One by one, 16 bluejackets disappeared into a storage room below the carrier deck for a little forbidden pleasure. There they got out their bankrolls, settled to their knees. The soft clack of dice and the whisper of plaintive invocations went on all night until the kitty reached some $3,000. Then the door opened, and three more bluejackets pushed in. But these were different: hoods masked their faces, they whispered commands, and they waved pistols. The crapshooters were ordered to stand facing the bulkheads...
Other actors jumped aboard the bandwagon: Tyrone Power got ready to tour with Poet Stephen Vincent Benet's John Brown's Body; Sarah Churchill and Edward Thommen headed west to read the letters of Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw; Emlyn Williams arrived from London with the novels of Charles Dickens under his arm. One might have thought the movies, radio and television had never been invented, and that the golden years of the Chautauqua circuit* were back again...
...Last week came the unkindest blow of all. Shamefacedly Economic Affairs Minister Eric Louw told the South African Parliament that one European black-marketeer, working through a Swiss bank and with a forged Lloyd's certificate that his bags had been inspected and approved, loaded a million bags aboard a British freighter at Genoa. When the bales were unwrapped at Durban, they proved to be full of rags. The swindler, admitted Minister Louw, got away with $700,000 of the government's money...
Another Japanese admiral turned up in the news last week, and offered more spectacular proof of changing times. Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's special "peace envoy" in Washington on Pearl Harbor Day, showed up at the U.S. naval base at Yokosuka to attend a ceremony aboard the battleship Wisconsin. He came to see his old friend, Vice Admiral Robert P. Briscoe, take over command of the U.S. Seventh Fleet from Vice Admiral Harold M. Martin. Said Nomura, who is still on the purge list: "I have always admired the American Navy. It was wonderful talking to old friends about...