Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Femme Fatale. In Philadelphia, Sailor Meldon Bell sheepishly told cops that he had been pushed into a doorway and robbed by a rather "powerful" woman...
...same disease that is affecting the whole world. I call it poison." Pat: "It seems to be worse in India." Gandhi: "Is it? I don't think [so]. . . . Perhaps life is now more secure in India than in the rest of the world." The Mississippi sailor came away impressed. Said he: "Bilbo always sent word that he was too busy...
...more had been added to her list: a youth suspected of robbing parked couples, and a sailor who had tried to strong-arm her in a public park, when she was walking her beat. Otherwise, Alice McCarthy's life had taken on a fairly sedate pattern in her middle age. She lived alone in a South Side apartment, went to the opera, studied French and Italian and went to Mass on Sundays. "I like all the finer things of life," she said...
...made a similar arrest some time in September 1943 at Guadalcanal, while a sentry aboard ship. A sailor was celebrating the discovery of some torpedo juice (190 proof) and using an LCV for a taxi...
Surprising Sailor. The man everybody had to catch down the stretch was Lew Worsham, a sandy-haired, 29-year-old ex-sailor from Washington, D.C., one time pro at Burning Tree. A nervous chain-smoker, likable young Lew Worsham had taken his wife to St. Louis with him, but made her stay back in the clubhouse. When he faltered momentarily on the 17th in the final round, one onlooker said: "There goes $50,000." But Worsham spit on his hands, with newsreels grinding beside him and shot a par. That gave him a two-under...