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...story is an odd hodgepodge of farce and parable, derived-almost by brute force-from Clyde Brion Davis' novel, The Anointed. The novel recounted the modest adventures of a philosophical sailor named Harry Patterson. As transmuted by the Hollywood alchemists, Harry Patterson becomes Clark Gable, a noisy, sociable bosun, while the seagoing philosopher is a broken-down Irish deck hand (Thomas Mitchell). Trouble begins when the two of them drift into the San Francisco Public Library to do a little research on the matter of the Irishman's soul. There, looking icy and poised behind her librarian...
...signed for Canada, had written on the wrong line. So had the French, Dutch and New Zealand signers who followed him.] The orders were placed in their hands and the Americans curtly gave them the signal to leave. They turned and departed as they had come. The shrill bosun's pipe followed their steps over the side-Shigemitsu, tired and expressionless, limping on his cane as he went; Umezu, stony-faced and silent, lifting a white-gloved hand to acknowledge the salute of the guard at the gangway...
...afternoon, Harry Truman attended a ship's smoker, intently following the Navy boxers. When the portable ring collapsed and a post struck Bosun's Mate H. W. Beemans, the President scurried below deck to sick bay, checked the sailor's injuries and stayed for a short chat...
Typical is the campus of the "University of Adak," in the Aleutians. It is sometimes ankle-deep in mud. Its plant consists of four half-barrel-shaped Quonset huts. Its faculty is a pickup team of volunteers. A 47-year-old chief bosun's mate in the Seabees is the faculty's linguist. A onetime student at the Universities of Paris and Moscow and onetime lieutenant in the Czar's World War I army, he speaks French, German, Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian. Another Adak instructor is a music teacher who was once "Amos & Andy's" organist...
Victor Mature, Hollywood handsome who is now a chief bosun's mate, arrived in Manhattan with a Coast Guard musical show, Tars and Spars. Long known as a "beautiful hunk of man," he was pleased to report that "the Coast Guard fellows changed it to 'beautiful hunk of junk...