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...salt pork (anyone planning to follow the sea for a living had to learn to like salt pork, the old man told him). One day, far out on Buzzards Bay, the old man died of a heart attack. Twelve-year-old Forrest was not rattled. He lowered the ensign to half-mast as stipulated by naval custom, sailed the catboat safely back to harbor...
...Ensign Pulver, his bunkmate from Princeton, is beautifully caricatured by Jackie Cooper, who has developed from his child star days to make the bumbling, lazy Pulver not only comic but sympathetic. Robert Burton plays the ship's doctor ("What are you giving them this week for double beri-beri?" "Aspirin, of course,") and Roberts' chief confidante capably...
...known as "the American master." He also tried to teach the boys baseball while they tried to teach him Rugby and cricket. In 1915, he married a pretty ballet dancer, Vivienne Haigh, daughter of a British artist. He volunteered for duty with the U.S. Navy, but his ensign's commission did not come through until after the Armistice. He gave up teaching and went to work for Lloyds Bank in London. Friends think that, had he stayed in the City, he might have risen to be a director of the Bank of England. (Later, he gave up his bank...
...purchase kitty. Meanwhile, Korea's ambassador to Washington was told to start looking for a ship. Last September Korea's government plunked down $18,000 of hard-won cash to buy a sturdy little 175-ft. patrol craft, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy's training ship Ensign Whitehead. A crew of 16 Korean officers was flown to New York to bring her home. They rechristened her the Bak Dusan, studied her vagaries in a two-week orientation course at the academy, painted her white sides a dark battleship grey, and set sail for the Pacific...
...Ensign, Canada's Catholic weekly, pointed out: "The market has been flooded with daring and risqué comics portraying the romance and love-life of the teen-ager . . . Sales have climbed back to the pre-ban level...