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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Cinemactor George Brent, 37; and Cinemactress Ann Sheridan, 26; he for the third time; in Palm Beach, Fla...
...training centers of the Commission dot the seaboard on both coasts. At St. Petersburg, Fla., Hoffman Island, N.Y., Port Hueneme, Calif., are schools for apprentices, aged between 18 and 23, where would-be mariners do a seven-month hitch learning the rudiments of their trade. Students are paid $21 a month. Experienced able-bodied seamen and oilers get paid $72.50 to $82.50 a month while brushing up on their knowledge. In charge of all training is the U.S. Coast Guard...
Remorse. In Crystal River, Fla., Mayor W. S. Alyea swore in public, arrested himself, prosecuted himself in court, drew a $25 fine...
Fifteen Harvard graduates are now in active training at the United States. Naval Air Station at Jacksonville, Fla., preparing in an intensive course to receive their commissions as full-fledged Naval flying officers, a recent bulletin from the station's public relations officer announced...
...Huckins Yacht Corp. yards in Jacksonville, Fla., Huck went to work. He locked himself in his laboratory, neglected his family, cut his friends, put in 100 hours a week over a drawing board. Last July his PT-69, a neat, sleek boat which jumps from wave to wave like a rock skipping over the water, was ready for Navy tests. Last week the Navy showed that it shared some of Huck's confidence that he had built the fastest, smoothest torpedo boat in the world: it gave him a contract (about $1,000,000) to build eight of them...