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Whistling Sailor...
Good lord, what a boner for TIME ! In the March 3 issue you say: "Franklin Roosevelt worked last week, like a sailor polishing brass, whistling as he worked." Franklin Roosevelt is a good sailor and no sailor whistles while he works. "Only fools and bos'n's mates whistle in the Navy...
...British surgeon recently did a mastoid operation on a middle-aged man who had once been a sailor. He decided to graft some skin from elsewhere on the patient's body to the site of the operation, behind his ear. When the surgeon viewed the patient's body, he found it almost completely covered with tattooed images of naked women (one named Mary) and erotic designs. Last week in the Lancet, the surgeon, writing anonymously, told how he faced his problem...
...Duncan (Lucille Ball) is the girl. Belabored by a shiftless family of zanies and a vague inclination towards matrimony, she seems completely satisfied just tagging along with Coffee Cup as he churns up street brawls, whirls around the dance halls or lounges in a hamburger joint with his sailor pals. Dot's boss is the guy. Played by newcomer Edmond O'Brien, the boss looks very depressed as he sprawls behind his big desk, but when he joins the capers of Coffee Cup and Dot, he perks up like a puppy. All in all, it adds...
Before many hours had ticked by, H.R. 1776, passed by the Congress, would lie on the President's desk. Toward that landfall Franklin Roosevelt worked last week, like a sailor polishing brass, whistling as he worked because he knew port was near. On dogwatches he conferred lengthily with Harry Hopkins, back now with the most complete report on wartime England yet made by an American; he consulted again & again with the Government's managers of defense, of money, of diplomacy and of the armed forces. While the sailorman President's back was tactfully turned, many...