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...story is an odd hodgepodge of farce and parable, derived-almost by brute force-from Clyde Brion Davis' novel, The Anointed. The novel recounted the modest adventures of a philosophical sailor named Harry Patterson. As transmuted by the Hollywood alchemists, Harry Patterson becomes Clark Gable, a noisy, sociable bosun, while the seagoing philosopher is a broken-down Irish deck hand (Thomas Mitchell). Trouble begins when the two of them drift into the San Francisco Public Library to do a little research on the matter of the Irishman's soul. There, looking icy and poised behind her librarian...
...George Lucas of Lafayette, Ind. (1944 pop. 30,746) was judged the Typical American Housewife by a national research organization. Outlines of the Typical American Housewife: she is 28, a solid. ly built brunette, the wife of a sailor, has a six-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son, does all the housework for an eight-room house (where her father-in-law lives), goes shopping every other morning, likes to cook, doesn't like quick-frozen foods, won't use corn syrup to stretch sugar recipes, serves the day's big meal...
...roughneck middleweight from Manhattan's tough Mulberry Street. Rocco ("Rocky") Graziano packed them in at Madison Square Garden last week for what fans thought would be his sixth straight knockout, a new Garden record. He fooled himself and the fans by winning on points from ex-Sailor Sonny Home...
Just for a Laugh. In Green River, Wyo., a train-traveling sailor, asked why he had swallowed a mouse, a light bulb, two razor blades, explained: he wanted to amuse his fellow passengers...
Flying weather was bad, but the young ex-sailor was enjoying the ride. His oxygen mask seemed to give him no trouble at all. But at 16,000 feet, he suddenly began to sweat and turned blue in the face. Rushed back to the field and thence to a hospital, he died within 28 hours...