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...press head the Navy chose Rear Admiral Arthur Japy (rhymes with happy) Hepburn, onetime Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (June 1936 to January 1938). A saltwater sailor who has had more sea service than any other officer in the service, Admiral Hepburn knows what it is to meet the press, from his experience as delegate to London and Geneva Conferences. Still less a stranger to press problems is the new aide wangled last week for Admiral Hepburn: Hal O'Flaherty, able, genial managing editor of Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News...
Married. Lincoln Edward Kirstein, 33, tall, tense esthete, director of Manhattan's School of the American Ballet; and Fidelma Cadmus, 33, sister of Sailor-&-Floozy Painter Paul Cadmus; in Manhattan...
Home Is the Sailor. For its unpreparedness to make weapons the U. S. could blame its witless conviction, bolstered wishfully after every war, that there would never be another. But for its unreadiness to put ships on the sea it had a sounder reason: for the past 80 years the call of its own domestic empire had increasingly drowned out the call of the sea. The U. S., which had once been a nation of seamen, had become a nation of landlubbers. There had been too much to do at home. And as domestic prosperity heightened, its prices...
...three days the U. S. Navy took over Sydney. Sailors rode free on busses, trains and trams, were ushered into theatres without charge, fed in Australian service men's buffets. With Sydney's girls, hungry for masculine entertainment since some 150,000 young Australians went abroad to fight for Britain, they bathed in the warm surf on Sydney beaches, picnicked, danced, reclined in the parks. At busy King's Cross intersection one sailor stopped traffic, led passers-by in song while police good-naturedly looked...
...TIME made Franklin Roosevelt a whistling sailor only as a figure of speech to show his mood as the Lend-Lease Bill neared port, assigned him to no particular rating such as a bos'n's mate...