Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Budget for Oblivion. In Seattle, Sailor Oluf Lystad, found dead in a gas-filled room, left...
...story is an odd hodgepodge of farce and parable, derived-almost by brute force-from Clyde Brion Davis' novel, The Anointed. The novel recounted the modest adventures of a philosophical sailor named Harry Patterson. As transmuted by the Hollywood alchemists, Harry Patterson becomes Clark Gable, a noisy, sociable bosun, while the seagoing philosopher is a broken-down Irish deck hand (Thomas Mitchell). Trouble begins when the two of them drift into the San Francisco Public Library to do a little research on the matter of the Irishman's soul. There, looking icy and poised behind her librarian...
Tigers & Drugstores. One child who had stood the trip well and who had no apprehensions at all was four-year-old Claire Fiedler, ready to rejoin her sailor father in Chicago. Associated Pressman Relman Morin interviewed Claire, set his report down in deadpan questions & answers...
...George Lucas of Lafayette, Ind. (1944 pop. 30,746) was judged the Typical American Housewife by a national research organization. Outlines of the Typical American Housewife: she is 28, a solid. ly built brunette, the wife of a sailor, has a six-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son, does all the housework for an eight-room house (where her father-in-law lives), goes shopping every other morning, likes to cook, doesn't like quick-frozen foods, won't use corn syrup to stretch sugar recipes, serves the day's big meal...
...roughneck middleweight from Manhattan's tough Mulberry Street. Rocco ("Rocky") Graziano packed them in at Madison Square Garden last week for what fans thought would be his sixth straight knockout, a new Garden record. He fooled himself and the fans by winning on points from ex-Sailor Sonny Home...