Word: capitano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week a Coast Guard troupe of 67 enlisted men & women played a four-a-day musical show called Tars and Spars in Vancouver's Beacon Theater. On Sunday the cast, including its bright particular star, Chief Boatswain's Mate Victor Mature,* lunched at the swank Capitano Country Club. Later a new, 85-ft. Canadian Navy tug stood by to take everybody for a joy ride. Chief Mature and most of the troupe pleaded other engagements. Sixteen SPARS and five tars accepted...
...Capitano Volanis was a short man, but fierce, handlebar mustaches and shoulders like an ox's made him look ominous. Over 70, he could still clamber goatlike among the mountains of Crete, could still spring on a wild goat and throw it with his bare hands. That was why they called him "The Goat," this notorious leader of the out lawed Venizelists, who wanted no kings in Greece & Crete...
Last week news came to King George II's entourage in the U.S. that the Nazis had caught the Goat and shot him. Said young John Tsouderos, the Prime Minister's son, who had been in the party the Goat guided: "Capitano Volanis was a good, good man. Now he is dead That is the New Order...