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Artist Paul Cadmus, wearing a green shirt, was found by newshawks cooking breakfast in his Greenwich Village apartment. Said he: "I got about $250 for that picture. . . . These admirals and secretaries probably never were sailors themselves. . . . What do they think sailors do on shore leave? They go to Riverside Drive. The ones who are out for innocent pleasure go rowboat riding in Central Park. ... A sailor's life is not a glamorous...
...night in Schiller Park the week after he escaped. In a St. Paul apartment house two Federal detectives had let two gunmen and a woman slip through their fingers under a machinegun barrage. They claimed that Dillinger was one of the men, that a picture of him as a sailor and some of his fingerprints were left in the apartment...
...DEATH SHIP - B. Traven - Knopf ($2.50). Yarn of a U. S. sailor on a gun runner; hard-boiled but a little overripe...
...Turkish visa and they refused. Desperate, she tried to push past them at the ship's rail. One of them seized her shoulder. She wrenched to get away, toppled backwards, slid over the rail into the harbor. She came up blowing the foul water from her mouth. A sailor with a boat hook fished her out. They carried her prostrate and drenched back to her cabin and the Rumania steamed off carrying her back to Athens...
James Beecher (1828-86), a sailor and Civil War soldier, became a minister in Owego, N. Y. He preached in the forests of Ulster County, N. Y., in the slums of Brooklyn, had a mental breakdown. One night he quietly went to his room, placed the muzzle of his gun in his mouth, shot himself...