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...Bos) CANTRELL, Editor...
Emceed by S-O Richard Breen, the show included a skit by an unknown radio expert, who explained the mysteries of how to oscillate waves, with blackboard drawings to match. He was followed on the all-star bill by Bos'n Pen land giving a bewildered account of a baseball game in "the bloomin' yonkee stadium...
Boatswain Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, U.S.N., turned 30, automatically came into another $5,000,000 from the estate of his father, Alfred Sr., who sank with the Lusitania in 1915. The millionaire bos'n got his first share at 21, his second at 25, will get his fourth installment at 35. "This is the life," said he. "I like my work very much. I'm just another fellow in the Navy now." Laura Mae Corrigan, 60, wealthy U.S. expatriate who became known as "the American Angel" for her war relief in France, finally had to abandon her work...
Multimillionaire Sportsman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt enlisted in the Navy, was made a bos'n, but kept his Manhattan apartment open to keep his servants busy...
...writers and Army life, Writer John Roberts Tunis, World War I veteran, declared: "There is nothing better for a writer. ... If a writer is drafted, he's lucky." ∙∙ Hobo King Jeff Davis said the draft and defense industries had cleaned the rods of 'bos...