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From Right to Left. In Seattle, when a whiskey-toting sailor jaywalked into her automobile, Genevieve Thompson stopped, took as witnesses the names of those riding in a car she had just passed. The witnesses, who included the local traffic judge, city attorney, substitute traffic judge, head of the Police Safety Education Unit, and two traffic council officials, let the sailor go on his way, gave Genevieve a ticket for wrong-side driving...
...Land Sailor. Shipbuilder Ferguson runs his acres of ways and forests of derricks with the offhand manner of a country storekeeper. He keeps no regular office hours, usually refuses to sign papers, spends his time cruising about the yard. Says he, out of the side of his mouth: "My predecessors damn near wore themselves out signing their names...
When he graduated, he found that he had no love for a sailor's roving life, but he liked ships. So he settled down in the Navy's construction corps, left it after ten years to join Newport News. It had been established 19 years before by railroad-building Collis P. Huntington, whose aim was to "build good ships here, at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always good ships...
...hated them. I want to fight them now. I ask permission to continue in the war to the end-if God permits-with weapons in my hands, at the most dangerous and exposed position at the front that is possible, in the most humble grade, even as a plain sailor...
...Leave, a sailor home from the Pacific finds his girl married, bruises his knuckles on her husband when the husband invites him to take her out. In A Respectable Place, a drunken cop shoots up Matty Wall's bar and the police benefit society gives him $175 to repair it. Then the cops pass Matty without speaking, his daughter gets a parking ticket, the beer truck un loading at his place gets a summons for obstructing traffic, and when Matty tries to return the $175, he is accused of bribery...