Word: sailorful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Training Program. The second and more important Curran plea was that the U.S. Merchant Service decrease its merchant sailor training program which plans to graduate some 50,000 new merchant sailors this year. According to Curran only about 20,000 new seamen are needed. But with three to five Liberty ships coming off the ways every day, the Government is taking no chances. Besides schools in Florida and California, it has poured $14,000,000 into a new trainee school on Long Island's Sheepshead Bay which is geared to turn out some 10,000 graduates every 90 days...
...hair-thin plot concerns the efforts of Betty Hutton, a telephone operator at Paramount, to keep sailor Eddie Bracken from knowing that his father, Victor Moore, is not the studio's head, but its gateman. This indirectly involves such sequences as when the Golden Gate Quartet steals the "Dreamland" number from Mary Martin and Dick Powell, a hilarious ride in a jeep, and a "Swing Shift" number with luscious brown Donna Drake swinging it in a good deal less than a shift...
...have been "the Bag of Bagdad." There is an Aladdin (John Qualen) whose companions jeer: "You've told that lamp story so often you believe it yourself." There is a Sinbad (Shemp Howard) whose refrain is: "This calls to mind an experience I once had as a sailor." And there is a harem which does bumps and grinds and makes the standard Hollywood harem look as well clad as a winter army on the Russian steppes...
...religion remained Chaplain Williams' prime function. He summed it up last week: "Religion, to be of importance to the soldier or sailor, must have something convincing to say to them about the meaning of God and the meaning of their own souls. . . . The chaplain who talks to his men about God will be respected and listened to. The chaplain who uses his few precious minutes talking about the wickedness of shooting craps will be largely ignored. When men are living cheek by jowl with death they rapidly get down to essentials. Religion...
...back out of sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...