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...Ensign's name withheld) c/o Fleet P.O. San Francisco > Let the Navy's pitch-&-roll men be more charitable. Maybe Good-Sailor Knox was only striking a pose...
Some charter members of Post 591: an 18-year-old sailor wounded by shrapnel (South Pacific); a young private with punctured ear drums (North Africa); a paratrooper who injured his back in a practice jump; an ex-National Guardsman suffering from shock and war neurosis; a 45-year-old World War I veteran who was drafted again for World War II and served in a medical battalion until discharged...
...Said the sailor with the shrapnel wounds, echoing the thoughts of the others: "Sure I wanted to join. The officer who discharged me said, 'If you're smart you'll join the Legion. They can do things...
...major item in a minor Cabinet shift. Into Woolton's vacated place went handsome, plodding Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, resident Minister in Washington in charge of supply. His Washington post will be taken by rugged "Big Ben" Smith, 64, ex-sailor, ex-dockworker, ex-organizer of Ernest Bevin's Transport and General Workers' Union. Ernest Brown, criticized for lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into...
Watson's first attempts to cope with aggressive adolescence usually misfired. "I am not," he writes sadly, "a wrestler or bouncer . . . and sitting behind a theater desk for about 25 years does not make a man in the pink." He picked up a bit of judo from a sailor and "this worked-sometimes." But once Manager Watson was thrown out of his own theater by one of his customers, and "that is bad for business." At last Watson solved his problem "by using show business and showmanship in the show business." Now he dresses for work...