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...Beginning or the End (MGM) and Sinbad the Sailor (RKO Radio...
...plugged Heartaches when nobody, even Weems, had thought of the record in ten years. Its revival to the point of the Decca re-issue was an absolutely single-handed job. Even the Charlotte press, not given to plugging radio, compares your story to reporting discovery of America by "local sailor...
...Record. In Independence, Kans., an ex-sailor walked into the county recorder's office, presented a bad-conduct discharge from the Navy, demanded five certified copies...
...lucrative business, whose chief interests in life seem to be feeding competitors to a vicious dog locked up in his wine cellar, driving a car at 100 miles per hour by means of a rear-seat accelator, and beating his wife. Into his life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both hero and heroine. But later, true to Hollywood tradition, this all turns...
...Columbus had sailed due west, the "prevailing westerlies" of the North Atlantic might have battered his caravels back to Europe. But by luck, sailor's hunch, or a simple desire to sail in warm weather, he detoured south to the Canary Islands, picked up favorable winds. Since then, transatlantic sailing ships have used the Columbus system, often sweeping miles out of their straight-line courses to take advantage of friendly winds...