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Fortunately," reported TIME Correspondent David Aikman, "the operation is almost entirely good-natured. The bearded sailors have won the admiration of everyone for their endurance. They worked the first 24 hours without a break, then went into regular 12-hour shifts. Joshing with the kids and youths, flirting with the pretty Vietnamese girls, they and the Seabees seemed to think it was all a worthwhile lark-which turned out to be just the right attitude to make the Vietnamese feel at home." One sailor decided at midweek to marry the Vietnamese girl whose clothes he had helped wash...
...Jimmy knows he is hot, but he is going to play it his way. "I need variety," he says. "After clanging my balls as Sonny, I deliberately chose the mild Billy Buddish sailor in Liberty." He played a tall, sexy version of the short, unsexy Billy Rose with zest in Funny Lady "because I wanted to do a musical." Even if Ingmar Bergman summoned, Jimmy would go only for one, "possibly two" pictures. He is not brash; he simply wishes to avoid ruts, typecasting and difficult colleagues. "Otherwise," he says, "it's three months of pain...
Dove was, after all, a wealthy brickmaker's boy from Geneva, N.Y., a square-jawed pragmatist, proud of his skills as farmer and sailor, who had tossed in an income of $12,000 a year illustrating for several magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post-no mean sum, in 1907 -and impoverished himself by making serious art at a time when Americans drew little distinction between "fine" and "commercial" work. Dove went to Europe and stayed for two years looking at the work of les Fauves: Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck. He came back in 1909, and never left America again...
...Nicolae Ceausescu in Bucharest and aging Josip Broz Tito, now 82, in Belgrade, as well as with Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow. As a small token of the Soviet party chiefs hopes for a happy Vladivostok summit meeting with Gerald Ford later this month, the Russians last week allowed Lithuanian Sailor Simas Kudirka, 44, and his family to fly to the U.S. Kudirka attracted world attention four years ago when he leaped aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter from a Russian fishing trawler in American coastal waters, seeking political asylum. He was beaten and dragged back aboard the trawler while embarrassed...
...remain their pretty sailor boys...