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...Puerto Rican sailor who had left Manhattan March 14 on an Army transport came down with smallpox in Bremerhaven. Manhattan officials promptly began a hunt for his Manhattan friends...
...recommended that I be sent to the Odenweldschule, a very modern and experimental school in the woods. I arrived there in midwinter, and was led into a snow-covered enclosure where many little boys and girls hopped around merrily in the nude. I had on a heavy overcoat, a sailor suit, a flannel shirt, a union suit. I was peeled out of all this after a heroic fight and was left in the snow, naked and howling. My health improved from there on, and I spent most of the time making surrealistic paintings, once it was discovered that I liked...
...unions tried to move in and he fought them. He assigned a hard-faced ex-sailor, Harry Bennett, to guard his empire. Heads were cracked. In 1932 four jobless marchers were killed outside the Rouge plant. He defied the New Deal. But in 1941, he capitulated. He signed a union-shop contract, something of which even Walter Reuther in his wildest moments had not dreamed...
...well in the end. Then he is killed in an auto wreck. Queenie (Kay Walsh) is the real problem. A spirited, rebellious girl, with ideas above her class, she runs off with a married man and suffers the consequences. It is years before she is reunited with her gentle, sailor sweetheart (John Mills...
...band of the roaring 20's grew rapidly through the days of white sailor caps and bow ties, but still lacked the bass drum, the Anderson medleys and the snap drills which gave it nation-wide fame and provoked high-school girls and college co-eds from as far as Texas to write touching letters to Bill Bingham pleading for a chance to be a Harvard drum majorette...