Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: The American sailor is without a doubt the best diplomat the United States could dispatch to a foreign land. With his knack for mixing with people, the gob has numerous advantages over the silk-hat representative of the State Department...
...sincere wish that you help smash the illusion that the sailor's sphere of action embraces only swabbing of decks and hoisting mugs ol beer...
...poet states a sailor's belief "That ships, when they're christened, on leaving the ways acquire a mysterious life of their own." He pictures the 50 U. S. vessels as knowing, even before Congress or Parliament, that they were called from their idle berths to action...
Engaged. Elizabeth Gray Morison, dark, pretty, seafaring daughter of HaVard's Sailor-Historian Samuel Eliot Morison (Second Voyage of Columbus); and Edward D. W. Spingarn, Trinity College economics instructor and son of the late great Critic-Libertarian Joel Elias Spingarn; in Boston...
...sinister adjectives accumulate, perhaps because they are already in the mind. Leonard Ross' Hyman Kaplan story is humorous, of course, and so are the Arthur Kober and Donald Moffat and Richard Lockridge stories. But far more typical are the bitter Jerome Weidman pieces, Irwin Shaw's savage "Sailor off the Bremen" and the incredibly sinister "Wet Saturday" of John Collier. One explanation--perhaps minor, but none the less interesting--suggests itself: the collection represents fifteen and a half years, in that some of the stories actually go back to 1925; but the bulk of the material was published between...