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...thinks about is getting his chickens home," said Admiral Boddam-Whetham's brother, an official in the British fuel ministry (three other brothers died in the army in World War I). "Being a sailor, he fears fog and ice more than any U-boat or Focke-Wulf. He is very reserved and hates to talk about himself...
...basket on arm, he did his own marketing. Behind him were almost 40 years in the navy as commander of various destroyers and of the battleship Queen Elizabeth. Five weeks after retirement he was back in uniform, assigned chiefly to duty on the perilous Arctic convoy route, where his sailor's fear of fog and ice found ample justification...
...weakened plates and sank the destroyer with two more. The concussion broke several men's feet. Lieut. Commander Ernest Davis was blown overboard. Many men had broken arms and legs. The explosion made a hole in the Yorktown's port side from hangar to keel. A sailor standing waist deep on the Hammann was setting the safety on depth bombs so they would not explode beneath the men struggling in the water. He was still working when the destroyer went down...
Tall, blue-eyed Ginny Simms, official sweetheart of 100 college fraternities, fingered the rabbit's foot Judy Garland had slipped her, flashed a toothy smile at a husky sailor, a slick-haired soldier, a plump marine. Blues-singing Ginny was introducing "Three Greatest Guest Stars in the World," as she emceed the premiere of Philip Morris' Johnny Presents Ginny Simms (NBC, Tues. 8-8:30 p.m. E.W.T.) The three servicemen were allowed to telephone anybody anywhere...
First star was the sailor: Gunner's Mate Second Class Mel Van Keuren, wounded at Pearl Harbor, where he was the first man to bag a Jap plane. He had studio telephone operators put through a call to a nurse named Rosella Nesgis, in Pearl Harbor. It seems that while nursing Sailor Van Keuren's wounds, Rosella had also read him his favorite comic strips. Hopping to the phone, he blurted happily to her: "I never look at Popeye without thinking...