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Besides regular meets, one day each week will be spent by the colleges in Greater Boston on the Charles Basin, where they will have Varsity and Freshman races to determine the spring champion. Last fall's championship was won by a Harvard dink sailor, after a hotly-contested sail-off with...
...business of running the submarine gamut was full of terrible danger. From the hospital at Coco Solo Naval Base in the Canal Zone last week came one of the grisliest tales of the war. It was told by a haggard, wan-eyed, bearded sailor, who looked like a man of 50. He was a mess boy named Robert Emmett Kelly, aged 17, sole survivor of a middle-sized tanker that a pig boat potted somewhere in the Caribbean...
...sailor wasn't really planning to kill Father Joyce when he stood him up at ten paces on Sancian Island; it was just a game when he put a bullet through his cassock. But the missionary from Maryknoll thought his last moment was at hand. Now he knows how he will act if martyrdom really comes to him. He tried to look unconcerned, and he prayed. Not until hours later did he realize, "quite mortified," that he had said the grace before meals instead of the Act of Contrition...
Bearded, barefooted Jonas and his uncounted half-breed offspring are always going to earn a living "when we get twisted around." Their problem is gasoline. It costs money. Without it they can neither fish for bonita nor make Jonas' ancient clapboard truck run. When a sailor son (Jon Hall) comes home with a prize U.S. fighting cock, Jonas wagers the family furniture, the vanilla crop, anything at hand, on the fortune-restoring bird. The result is the blackest day in the history of the Tuttles...
...took seven writers to produce Fleet's story-a prodigal waste of talent. A nice, homespun sailor (William Holden) inadvertently kisses a movie star, whereupon his battleship becomes the glamor ship of the U.S. fleet. To keep the flag flying, Sailor Holden is coerced into trying to kiss unbussable Dorothy Lamour, a dime-a-dancehall dame who loathes sailors. The Navy makes book on him. He kisses her all right, but it takes the whole picture...