Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight long months ago the Ada Rehan, her reputation spotless, had sailed out of San Francisco on a two weeks' voyage to New Orleans. A wireless message from the War Shipping Administration changed her course for Chile. Over vodka and rum in Shanghai a sailor recalled that first leg of a voyage that was to last eight hectic months: "It was like a bunch of amateurs was running things...
With a load of nitrate, the Ada Rehan turned into the Atlantic, circled around blindly for a while until Captain Harold B. Ellis discovered which sailor was carrying the magnet around in his pocket and throwing the compass off. Just outside of Tripoli they steamed through a floating minefield under the impression that it was a gathering of turtles. Captain Ellis went ashore with a nervous breakdown, refused to come back...
...Sailor Takes a Wife. June Allyson and Robert Walker chase a honeymoon (TIME, March...
...Sailor Takes a Wife. June Allyson and Robert Walker chase a honeymoon (TIME, March...
Paris had been kind to Gauguin the dashing young sailor, Gauguin the successful banker and stockbroker, and even to Gauguin the diffident "Sunday painter." But at 35 he quit his job and left his wife and five children in order to paint full time. Then Paris was different. It was, said Gauguin, "a desert for a poor...