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From a box-office point of view, it would probably have been better to have matched the Boston sailor boy with the latest freak of the boxing world. Primo Carnera, Italian colossus. If the latter taken in hand in a good publicity campaign, set up against a whole row of pushovers, all carefully instructed to lie down quietly when the proper time duly arrived, and then sent down to Miami, there would probably be enough gullible sporting patrons to fill several stadiums. They would go to such a match as much to see the giant Italian in action (or inaction...
...Author. H. M. ("Tommy") Tomlinson, 56, is described by a friend (J. B. Priestley) as looking at first glance "like a rather hard-bitten city clerk. At a second glance, he looks like a gnome. . . ." He was born in London's East End, among the docks; was a sailor, newspaper correspondent, war correspondent, literary editor of the London Nation and Athenaeum. Other books: The Sea and the Jungle, Old Junk, Under the Red Ensign, Gallions Reach...
There is a yarn making the rounds here on how a hilarious sailor strolled down a street in Guantanamo City singing "Me and My Shadow." He was arrested and spent a night in the Hotel De Callaboose. The police, it seems, thought he was making fun of Machado...
When the Mexican War broke out (1846), there was no holding Sailor Buchanan: he applied for active service, was accepted, and saw it. "For services rendered in Mexico," he was officially complimented by the Maryland Legislature, presented with 160 acres in Iowa. The Civil War found him in command of Washington Navy Yard. He resigned, later asked to have his resignation reconsidered; was told curtly that his name had been "stricken from the rolls of the Navy." Sailor Buchanan said good-bye to his family, went to Richmond, became captain in the Confederate Navy. In March, 1862, in the reconditioned...
...songs of the Yale Glee Club include four English folk songs, "Agincourt Song", "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes", "Swansea Town", and "What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor", and three negro spirituals, "Place My Feet On Higher Ground", "Keep In The Middle Of The Road", and "The Battle Of Jericho...