Word: matings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a scoreless first period, the Big Green sextet, paced by speedy Captain Dan Sullivan, manufactured five goals, four of them within eight minutes. In this canto, the Crimson defensemen were caught flat-footed on several occasions, twice permitting Sullivan to chalk up solo tallies while a mate was serving penalty time...
...TICKET-Eugene O'Brien-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Late of the U.S. Navy (machinist's mate), hard-muscled Author O'Brien wrote as honestly about sailors in his first novel (He Swung and He Missed) as Steinbeck does about farm hands. This time he adds considerable data not advertised on the recruiting posters-of life below deck, in port, under good captains and bad-but goes on a spree with his plot in which curly-headed Kelly falls for a sweet girl, his pal Mac is court-martialed for theft, another pal is taken off to the asylum...
Bare as a fresh-scrubbed deck was the story of First Mate Warren W. Rhoads, who wrote a solemn, copyrighted history of the trip for the New York Times and the North American Newspaper Alliance Inc. Of their stay in Bergen: "Mrs. Harriman, our United States Minister to Norway, came aboard, a very fine lady. She thanked us all for the way we conducted ourselves . . . and said our State Department was grateful. ... I was badly in need of a haircut and so were the rest of the crew, so we asked for a barber." Ashore went First Mate Rhoads...
During the three weeks the City of Flint was in Bergen harbor, busiest of her crew was Junior Third Mate Carl C. Ellis of Newtonville, Mass. When he finally sailed away, he had the promise of 22-year-old Norwegian Ruth Englesen to marry him, if he can arrange for her entry...
...this guy Doug Fairbanks is the first mate on a sailing ship, and he doesn't like to send sailors up aloft when it's blowing and they're liable to get killed, so he quits. And then he goes to a pub and gets lit and there he meets Will Fyffe, who is fat and so Scotch that his burr sticks onto him after he's finished talking. now Will is an engineer and he acts like he's off his rocker, but he's really only a genius. He dreams about steam engines at night. So these...