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...House Naval Affairs Committee last week made plans to investigate an age-old problem: vice as it affects the armed forces. Their first stop this week will be Norfolk, followed by San Francisco, San Diego and other Navy bases...
Covering Up. On the East Coast the services seem more conservative. In Norfolk, Tattooist Arthur B. ("Cap'n Dan") Coleman, who has had the same shop for 25 years, finds sailors still wanting girls covered with flags; eagles; anchors with fouled lines. Baltimore's Norwegian Tattooist Einar ("Tattoo Bill") Kluge said last week: "Business isn't as good as it was in the last war, but it's good. . . . Women run to initials, roses and butterflies on the arm and leg, stand up to it better than men, who sometimes faint. As for the Marines...
Towards evening Oliver became the professor. For years he lectured on the history of medicine at the University of Maryland and at Johns Hopkins University. Most evenings, wearing a rosy boutonniere in his grey Norfolk jacket, he sat down at the head of a long dining table in Johns Hopkins' Alumni Memorial Hall. As warden of the hall he was surrounded by men ranging from freshmen to graduate students. Once when an after-dinner speaker failed to show up, Oliver pinch-hit for him, related the details of a famous murder. That set a precedent...
...mock Tokyo, traders on the New York Stock Exchange put on another show of confidence, last week boosted stocks to new highs for the year. Typical gains: American Airlines 5⅛ points, Chrysler 1¾, Du Pont 4½, Monsanto Chemical 3⅜, Norfolk & Western 6⅜, U.S. Steel...
...Elder first felt the call to preach in 1917 while peddling fish near Norfolk. That very night he got some friends together, established a church. Ten years later he moved to Washington. Soon he was broadcasting regularly with his 156-voice chorus, which has been compared favorably with the virtuoso Hall Johnson Choir. For years he has taken over Washington's Griffith Stadium each Sunday night during the summer, drawn crowds of 10,000 to 40,000 with a heavy sprinkling of whites...