Word: messboys
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...says Noah Greenberg, "you have a great deal of time to think -and I thought." What he thought about during his five years as machinist-messboy with the merchant marine was forming a group of professional musicians and singers to revive the all but forgotten music composed and played during the five centuries before the birth of Bach...
...played by Tyrone Power, Marty is a fresh greenhorn from Ireland who conies to the Point as a messboy and in time joins the Army, who marries Maureen O'Hara and becomes not only an all-around trainer but confidant and informal adviser to a long gray line of cadets. Since it all began in 1896, Director John Ford gets a chance to toss in the names or quick flashes of the faces of the West Pointers who later became national heroes: MacArthur, Patton, Bradley, Stratemeyer, Wainwright, Van Fleet, and in the scene depicting the first Army-Notre Dame...
...Jersey, flunked out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Grabbed later as a draft dodger, he joined the Navy, put on such a show of love for the Germans that the Navy discharged him. From then on, it was easy-for a while. Colepaugh sailed to Europe as a messboy on the diplomatic exchange liner Gripsholm, jumped ship at Lisbon, and presented himself at the German consulate. He was quickly enrolled in espionage schools, introduced to Gimpel, started on the long voyage home, an accomplished traitor...
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