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...love, twice halfheartedly attempted suicide to prove his devotion. His punishment for one clumsy attempt at sea, Hector told a friend, was "to swallow a lot of salt water and be yanked out like a fish . . ." He was married twice, both times unhappily; his only son Louis became a sailor, died two years before his famous father...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). The Lady Takes a Sailor, with Dennis Morgan and Jane Wyman...
When evening arrived the American sailors came ashore. As soon as they landed scores of Italians gathered around them chattering and laughing. Suddenly Palmira, curious to know what the fuss was about, walked through the dusk to the edge of the crowd. As she stood there, an American sailor "with a hat like a saucepan" thrust some chocolate and a carton of cigarettes into her hands. Before she could say anything he was gone...
Like Bruegel's work, Resurrection is rich in anecdote. Among other things, it shows a sailor greeting his girl, a crowd raising a tombstone, children reading inscriptions, old folks on all fours, a group gazing ecstatically heavenward, and a plump gravedigger, his work done, surveying the whole scene. Last week Resurrection earned a wide and rather startled audience; London's popular press wrote the painting up as "the picture of the year...
...Independence Hall he would be chosen one. Four days later, on Memorial Day, 1951, the U.S.'s symbolic warrior of World War II would be enshrined. Unlike the Unknown Soldier of World War I, near whom he would lie in Arlington, he would be neither soldier, sailor nor airman. He would be simply "The Unknown...