Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sullivan calls popular works on science "one of the most unprofitable of all forms of reading," admits ''it seems that I am a man without any marked talents." He wrote his autobiography under the common desire to understand and justify his own existence. Son of an Irish sailor, Shaughnessy-Sullivan had little formal schooling, thinks he missed nothing but "a prodigious waste of mental energy." He got a good job early, with an electrical manufacturing company. His job and his fellow-workers roused his interest in science. He put himself through London University, emigrated...
...Hardin, author of The Young Die Good, staff member of Vogue for four years. At Mrs. Chase's left, representing "the stretch between youth and middle age," was Mrs. Emma Vogt Ives, Vogue's associate fashion editor, sister of Actor Louis Calhern, in a square-crowned flat sailor with quill. A rakish felt sailor for debutantes was worn by beauteous Miss Rion Fortescue of Washington, sister of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, principal in last spring's Honolulu tragedy. Absent from the group was Editrix Carmel Snow of U. S. Vogue. The schoolgirl was a professional model...
...Sailor Charles ("Buddy") Cowart, 19, refused to tell the Press how he dangled for two hours on a rope beneath the wind-tossed U. S. S. Akron over Camp Kearny, Calif, unless the Press would pay him (TIME, May 23). But in Tulsa, Okla. last week Sailor Cowart could not resist spinning a yarn for the home folks. He described how he and two mates of the ground crew were jerked high into the air when the airship broke her moorings...
...their Caterpillar Club. Airship men who have dangled on ropes might call themselves Spiders. After two hours the lump at the end of the Akron's cable began to rise slowly spider-wise, toward a port in the forward part of the lifeless, floating ship. As the cable shortened Sailor Cowart's oscillations grew more violent. When he disappeared into the port, the crowd murmured with relief but no one cheered...
Aboard the ship Sailor Cowart spurned spirits of ammonia. Said he: "Gimme something to eat." He set off immediately on a curiosity tour of the Akron. After the ship was successfully moored later that evening, Sailor Cowart stubbornly refused to tell his story to reporters, despite the friendly coaxing of Commander Rosendahl. A welterweight boxer out for the All-Navy championship, he said: "I'll have to see my manager before I talk." His manager sold the story to the highest bidder, Hearst's Universal Service...