Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Message to Tokyo. Not even optimists inferred from this new phenomenon that the enemy would quit when he saw his situation was hopeless. It was already hopeless and he did not quit. But many a soldier and sailor was ready to say that, at least to a few Japs, the U.S. had managed to communicate a vital message: surrender does not mean extinction, or even the loss of soldierly honor...
...Imogene Stevens, tiger-eyed Texas beauty, held in New Canaan, Conn, for the killing of a 19-year-old sailor at a neighbor's, house (TIME, July 9), had an emotional reunion at the county jail with her paratrooper husband, who flew in from Europe on a 30-day emergency leave to help her. Busy trying to get his wife's $50,000 bail reduced, Major George Ralsey Stevens III stoutly declared to reporters: "She did what any woman would have done...
...that morning as we lay off the beach at Tarakan leaning on the rail, an enlisted man beside him, a letter in his hands. He was reading. Then he folded the letter deliberately, put his arm around the sailor's shoulders, and handed him the letter. A moment later he appeared beside me on the bridge. He lighted a cigaret...
Retiring Secretary of State Ed Stettinius seemed satisfied with his new job (see Foreign Relations). Labor Secretary Frances Perkins put aside her black tricorn, unveiled two "private hats": 1) a broad, black-on-white sailor straw; 2) a trim white Panama with black veil. She seemed to enjoy the leavetaking. At a farewell party at the Statler Hotel she gave Senator Robert F. Wagner an astonishing kiss on the cheek; at another party she shook the hands of 1,800 Labor Department employes (see cut). Her plans: a month in Maine with her ailing husband Paul Wilson; beyond that...
...What's your mother, then?" "I haven't got one." "Oh, you're a orphan, then; the same as me." And the old hand passed on the news: "He says he's a orphan." "Well, tell the orphan he'll soon be a sailor sick aboard this hooker." But John Masefield's two years on the Conway turned out to be one of the most fascinating periods of his varied life. A few years ago, in another autobiographical chapter called In the Mill (TIME, Aug. 11, 1941), Masefield showed that he could distill romance...