Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Africa came a sardonic, familiar voice, welcoming passers-by to the microphone: "Anybody here from out of town? Step on board, sailor. What's your name? . . . Boys, break it up and let this lovely vision come through. That's it, dear. What's your name?" New Yorkers who recalled his famed sidewalk interviews from Times Square ("Step up, brother, stop your mad rush to the grave") recognized the voice of brassy George Braidwood ("The Real") McCoy, radio buttonholer extraordinary (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940). They found out last week that Private McCoy was now playing...
...After it had finished eating about forty helpings of fish it wandered through a door that was bad to go through because the cat, although very intelligent and handsome, was really just an Apprentice Seaman and didn't belong in the Officers' mess. But he was a lucky sailor, and he walked out unscathed, not even restricted from weekend liberty...
...good their losses is to fix a roulette wheel and break the bank for $228,000. Luckless loser in Hi Diddle Diddle is birdbrained Mrs. Prescott (Billie Burke) who claims she has disposed of the family fortune just as her daughter Janie (Martha Scott) is about to marry a sailor, Sonny Phyffe (Dennis O'Keefe). Father Phyffe (Adolphe Menjou) is the raffish Samaritan deputed to recoup Mrs. Prescott's family fortune by breaking the bank at a gambling casino...
...torch-singing accomplice is Gypsy Rose Lee's little sister, June Havoc. The comedy is also complicated by Cinemactor Menjou's love life and the fact that each new crisis keeps postponing Sailor Phyffe's shore leave until all that is left for his honeymoon is a matter of minutes...
...fact that bluejackets will like Seaporcel is obvious-it eliminates the sailor's perennial occupation of chipping off old paint and brushing on new. Seaporcel keeps its finish almost indefinitely against all kinds of weather, can be cleaned with a damp cloth...