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...didn't know the Highland fling from a sailor's hornpipe," he said later. "I watched the fellow's feet next to me and did what he did." He quickly graduated to Broadway musicals, then in 1930 was brought to Hollywood as a contract player for Warner Bros., the studio that had ushered in the talkies a few years earlier with The Jazz Singer. Many silent-film stars' careers were destroyed by the triumph of sound; Cagney's was ensured by it. He was one of the first actors to grab an audience by sending dialogue special delivery, with...
WHEN A SOVIET sailor jumped into the Mississippi River last October, a bizarre sequence of events followed. One mistake compounded another, until the United States completely bungled what could have been the successful defection of a dissatisfied Soviet citizen...
...World Championship. When the last sails were furled, the visitors had taken a belting, both from the sea and from the home team. A 20- knot wind, known locally as the Fremantle Doctor, frequently frosted the 6- ft. ocean swells with a 3-ft. chop described by one Australian sailor as "dirty and short." In all the rough slogging, the assembled regatta lost four 90-ft. masts, a dozen booms and hundreds of square yards of Kevlar sailcloth. In the turmoil, five crewmen were washed overboard and had to be saved. Gary Jobson, of the Chicago-based Heart of America...
...when the bill--which has been labelled "obnoxious" by progressive consumer groups--was marked up earlier this month, there was proof that the old sailor had been caught up in the conservative tide. Kennedy's name was prominent among the bill's sponsors...
...jumped twice into the Mississippi River in an apparent bid for freedom. U.S. immigration officials returned him to the Soviet vessel. The ship was detained near New Orleans until Medvid was allowed an interview to discover his intentions. By the time the interview took place last week, the Soviet sailor said he wanted to go home. The U.S. release of Medvid to the Soviets drew a chorus of protest from more than a dozen Congressmen...