Word: sailorful
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...returned sailor from way down under who expects to go under soon again, I think the idea swell. Your magazine means a lot out there to us. . . . I was once the delighted recipient of 17 copies of TIME in a row. After being thrown out of the Philippines, the mail service was damn bad. Everything finally got straightened out in Australia, and my favorite relaxation in the afternoon while resting up from two war patrols in an "S" class submarine was to get into the bathtub with a bottle of scotch and a copy of TIME and go to town...
...return to civilian life (what the hell, I'll take a chance while still a sailor), I'd like to engage Legionnaires John Gare Jr. and John E. Boland with tomatoes-preferably rotten eggs-at 20 paces...
...crusading zealously in its own behalf. In a series of advertisements in newspapers and trade magazines it had been preparing for its Oct. 19 hearing (at which postal examiners will determine Esquire's right to continue to use second-class mail) by back-patting itself as a soldier-sailor morale builder...
Stripping off his uniform, a young officer swam to the boat and hauled himself over the gunwale, dropping to cover as Jap shells whistled around him. The dead sailor was stretched out on deck, the secret device still clutched in his hand. The officer pried it loose, swam with it to deep water and let it sink out of sight...
Participants in a noonday service at an Anglican Church in London were startled last week by a message from the dead. Up rose Lord Dowding to read a letter which he believed was dictated to him by the spirit of a sailor missing in action...