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First I thought of being the proverbial engine driver or something. Then I wanted to grow up to be a sailor, as I had been on the yacht for the first time, and, of course, a soldier, because I had been watching the Changing of the Guard. When I started shooting, I thought how marvelous it would be to be a big-game hunter. I went from one thing to the other until I realized I was rather stuck...
...stern portion of Evans scraped along the starboard side of Melbourne, the carrier's crew sprang to action. One Australian sailor leaped aboard Evans' stern, and was soon followed by many others. They managed to lash Evans1 196-foot-long stern section to Melbourne long enough for dozens of stranded U.S. sailors to be lifted to the carrier. Scrambling through the unfamiliar ship, the Australian seamen coolly rescued their comrades. Sailors who had leaped from Evans into the water were soon searched out and rescued, some of them by the carrier's helicopter, others by whaleboats...
...Sailor Suits. Among his latest acquisitions are two Manhattan landmarks -Luchow's, where the schnitzel has been unadorned for decades, and Charles in Greenwich Village, where the menu used to be sensible and the decor genteel. Now Charles has burst into a kind of bordello Byzantine, where a female harpist plucks away and the lighting is too dim to see the food (not that one would want to). So far, mercifully, Ellman has left Luchow's alone...
...Steer Palace, near the new Madison Square Garden, diners perch on the observation platforms of fake railway cars. At La Boufferie, waiters dressed in French sailor suits prance amongst the tables while, over the loudspeakers, Tiny Tim sings Tip Toe Through the Tulips...
Brown appears-reluctantly, it often seems-as an American sailor in Bombay trying to track down the man who murdered his shipmate by cutting him into "Christmas ribbons." When the bad guy's "holy assassins" rough Kenner up and leave him for dead, he is helped out by a quaint little street urchin (Ricky Cordell) and his humanistic Mom (Madlyn Rhue). After a couple of weeks of tender care from Junior and loving from Mom, Kenner is ready to resume his mission. All that talk around the house about karma and reincarnation, however, has cramped his vindictive style. From...