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...which visited Annapolis, was received by President Hoover. As naval attaché in Washington (1920-23), he assisted at the Washington Conference and was all tact. He always remembered Americans' birthdays, and always remembered to tell the story of the little cemetery in Japan where some shipwrecked U.S. sailors were buried, whose graves were perpetually and tenderly cared for. In 1937, with tears literally blurring his eyes, he apologized for the sinking of the Panay. "I am merely an ignorant sailor," he said, "but I want you to know that I am speaking from the depths of my heart...
Osami Nagano, the bluff, hearty sailor, became Chief of Naval General Staff in charge of operations on April 9, 1941. He still held the job on Dec. 7, 1941. What happened that day was not an accident...
...Drowning Sailor. Lady Gregory died, and for some months he wrote no new poetry. He was busy helping to construct a social theory which might slow down Communism in Ireland...
...Training Program. The second and more important Curran plea was that the U.S. Merchant Service decrease its merchant sailor training program which plans to graduate some 50,000 new merchant sailors this year. According to Curran only about 20,000 new seamen are needed. But with three to five Liberty ships coming off the ways every day, the Government is taking no chances. Besides schools in Florida and California, it has poured $14,000,000 into a new trainee school on Long Island's Sheepshead Bay which is geared to turn out some 10,000 graduates every 90 days...
...hair-thin plot concerns the efforts of Betty Hutton, a telephone operator at Paramount, to keep sailor Eddie Bracken from knowing that his father, Victor Moore, is not the studio's head, but its gateman. This indirectly involves such sequences as when the Golden Gate Quartet steals the "Dreamland" number from Mary Martin and Dick Powell, a hilarious ride in a jeep, and a "Swing Shift" number with luscious brown Donna Drake swinging it in a good deal less than a shift...