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...Figures. Burroughs was founded by an Auburn, N. Y. bank clerk, William Seward Burroughs, who got tired of adding up long columns of figures. In 1881, he went to St. Louis, and with $700 borrowed from a dry-goods merchant he tried to invent an adding machine...
Beautifully photographed in Technicolor, The Raider is a cold, gripping, North Atlantic tale about a lifeboat full of survivors, a Nazi sub, and a British merchant ship strayed from its convoy. Director Pat Jackson's amateur actors-all real seamen with their own wartime experiences on their minds-are better than greasepainted professionals could ever hope to be. The picture will delight those who are surfeited with the bogus posturing and declaiming of most wartime fiction...
...Blow for Bobo. Early in the game Ruark had learned the nuisance value of heaving a rock at a greenhouse-if it was not too big a greenhouse. When he went to Washington, B.C. in 1936, he had a degree from the University of North Carolina, hitch in the merchant marine, and $4.25 in change. A copy boy's job gave him his toe hold on the Scripps-Howard Washington News. In a few months (and after ( few staff shakeups by Editor Lowell Mellett) the cocksure young Irishman was the paper's top sportswriter. One day he accused...
These officers and men of the Merchant Marine are exposed to the longest looks and widest public freeze when the subject of recruitment is aired. Just where were the draft-dodgers? Some 25 per cent of the men were 4-F, or over or under service ago. Another 30 per cent were old time mariners who were merely working at their business--which suddenly became a good deal more precarious and, to the nation, essential. The rest were able-bodied men of draft age who went to sea instead of to the armed forces, and who, every last...
...Whether merchant seamen deserve the privileges granted under a Bill of Rights is still a matter of dispute. But their record does not deserve the treatment it is receiving from members of the less-informed press and from the emoting of outstanding professional veterans. Not all white and not all black, the record of the merchant seamen--their 5200 dead--is that of overall loyalty and business-like performance of duty...