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...ship out. Retired from the Navy 20 years ago as chief carpenter's mate, he broke out his old uniform again last week, prepared to work towards another hash mark to add to the swatch of eight that adorn his sleeve already (they represent 32 years' service). Sailor Humble began his career as a blacksmith's apprentice in Ireland, joined the U.S. Navy in 1890, the year he landed in the U.S. He began to hate the Japs back in 1901, when some Jap cops in Yokohama paddled him with the flat of their swords...
...Sailor Forsdal made it. When a Coast Guard vessel picked up the two men they were so heavily coated with congealed oil that they weighed (the Coast Guard captain estimated) 500 Ib. apiece...
Halifax is a salt-rimed sailor's town, dependent on the sea for its livelihood, on war for boom prosperity. But Halifax also has a Calvinist moral attitude; Haligonians still squirm when historians recall that Queen Victoria's father flaunted his pretty mistress, Julie, in the face of Halifax society...
...knows how few of us civilians will ever realize how much you are doing for us and how much we owe you," Mrs. McEuen told her sailors. "God bless you -and give us strength to carry on the fight for the glass of beer for the sailor in surroundings worthy...
Physically as well as spiritually, Bishop Berggrav is equipped to cope with the Nazis. Tall, blue-eyed, with hair that is still bright blond in his 50s, he is an enthusiastic hunter, fisherman and sailor. A hard-working bishop, who before the war was constantly on the move visiting his flock, he also found time to write newspaper and magazine articles and best-selling travel books. He has never been a man to keep quiet on any issue. If the Nazis have indeed imprisoned him, his very silence will be loud...