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...Sailors traditionally raise hell in port, and David Frazeur. a seaman on the Steel Navigator, is a traditional sailor. When his ship docked at a port in tropical Sumatra about a month ago, he went ashore like a tidal wave. Next day, having managed to get back aboard, he awoke to find in his bunk a scaly, lizard-like creature about a foot long, with a stubby snout and a tongue that looked like a worm. Seaman Frazeur greeted the creature with no amazement, named it Pandora, fed it on milk and egg yolk. When he went back...
...sailor and lumberjack. Aksel Sandemose is a 39-year-old Danish novelist who has been acclaimed and anathematized in much the same terms as James Joyce, Celine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka. Like them, he follows a realism that is epic and allegorical rather than photographic. Two years ago Sandemose was introduced to U. S. readers with a powerful, puzzling story called A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks. Acknowledging Sandemose's originality, critics called him less original than Joyce, less obscure than Kafka and Rilke, less cynical than Celine...
...overlook the fact that a famous sailor, Cris Columbus by name, was one of the greatest politicians of all history. When he set sail from Spain, he didn't know where he was going. When he reached his destination, he didn't know where he was. When he returned to Spain, he didn't know where he had been...
...wait to see. It announced that Harry Lundeberg's Sailors' Union of the Pacific shortly will be chartered as the A. F. of L. union for seamen on all coasts, will join longshoremen, waterfront teamsters, licensed officers in a new Maritime Department. Eventual object is not only to run Sailor Curran off the eastern waterfronts, but to sink his western .friend and mentor, C. L O. Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
Give Me a Sailor (Paramount). Martha Raye, Bob Hope and Betty Grable in a Cinderella comedy chiefly notable because it suggests that Miss Raye's employers have begun to doubt whether the entertainment possibilities of her adenoids are inexhaustible...