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Eight long months ago the Ada Rehan, her reputation spotless, had sailed out of San Francisco on a two weeks' voyage to New Orleans. A wireless message from the War Shipping Administration changed her course for Chile. Over vodka and rum in Shanghai a sailor recalled that first leg of a voyage that was to last eight hectic months: "It was like a bunch of amateurs was running things...
...Sailor Takes a Wife. June Allyson and Robert Walker chase a honeymoon (TIME, March...
Paris had been kind to Gauguin the dashing young sailor, Gauguin the successful banker and stockbroker, and even to Gauguin the diffident "Sunday painter." But at 35 he quit his job and left his wife and five children in order to paint full time. Then Paris was different. It was, said Gauguin, "a desert for a poor...
...Sailor Takes a Wife. June Allyson and Robert Walker on a bender, hilarious honeymoon (TIME, March...
Thirty hungry fight managers (including ex-featherweight, lightweight, welterweight champion Henry Armstrong) have been twisting Foxworth's arm to get him to sign up. But Sailor Bob, who earns a piddling $30 a week as a janitor in an East St. Louis nightclub, wasn't buying any just yet. He intends to go back to studying physical education at the University of Wisconsin, put more weight on his rawboned frame, and turn pro when he is good & ready. Says Foxworth, who never seems to be in much of a hurry: "My family matures rather late in life...