Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want Philip!" chanted some of the crowd. "We want grandpa!" cried others. Some began singing Pack Up Your Troubles and All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor. Then the whole crowd had squared away in the inevitable British hymn of love, For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Universal), from the British thriller of the same name,* is told in a despairing cinematic monotone almost as dismal as its title. A beached merchant sailor (Burt Lancaster) cracks the skull of a London pubkeeper, for no very good reason, and escapes the bobbies by climbing into the bedroom of a prim nurse (Joan Fontaine). With more kindness than gumption, she concludes that a young man so desperately weary is worth protecting. From the moment Nurse Fontaine makes this silly decision, her fate is hitched to the criminal's inevitable decline & fall...
...please himself, Hopkinson does watercolors between portrait commissions. Last week Boston's Margaret Brown Gallery was exhibiting the landscapes he painted on a trip to New Zealand last year. The work of a lifelong sailor, his watercolors are sometimes as taut with motion as a sailboat in a stiff breeze...
...Like a sailor come home, Pound tells the folks about the marvels he knows. He delves into the intrigues of Renaissance Italy and renders Greek myths in his own way; gives a long narrative of Chinese history and satirizes the visit to Europe of a lady from Kansas; comments on philosophical problems and wanders off into topical harangues. He loves to indulge in the old Bohemian game of scandalizing the bourgeoisie (he once wrote: "The thought of what America would be like/If the Classics had a wide circulation/ Troubles my sleep."). But though he is desperately eager to appear...
True Colors. In Chicago, police explained how they had caught James E. Glore impersonating a sailor: he was wearing two-toned sport shoes...