Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spanish, anxious for U.S. aid and hospitable by nature, worked hard to make the fleet feel at home. A U.S. sailor's white hat was enough to get him free streetcar rides, free tickets for movies; wine was on the house in many flamenco joints. No one took exception to U.S.N. wolf-whistles at the señoritas. The Falangist Informacion Nacional helpfully printed, in its own enthusiastic English, the complete text of President Truman's State of the Union "Speack." Falangist party bigwigs were ordered not to wear their black uniforms, or to give their Fascist salute...
Wrong Number. In Idaho Falls, Idaho, Sailor Dewayne Sharpan selected from the telephone book a name to sign to a bogus check, was later told by police that he had picked the county's prosecuting attorney...
...Hull Cracks. On the bridge, the captain calmly prepared for trouble. During nearly 23 years as a deep-water sailor, amiable, stubborn Kurt Carlsen had been in his share of tight spots, but he bore small resemblance to the dramatic sea dog of fiction. He had, for instance, a penchant for providing flowers for the ship's passengers. He enjoyed toiling on deck with the crew. He kept a motorcycle on the ship, and used it for jaunts ashore-expeditions for which he often donned an electrically lighted bow tie. He was an unabashed radio ham and on dull...
...showed with equal clarity Paris' elegant mansions and lean-to shanties, her fashionably dressed strollers and her ragpickers. Among the finest: a warmhearted study of a blind organ grinder accompanying a bright-faced young street singer, deadpan views of the cluttered windows of a toupee maker and hairdresser, sailor-hatted moppets at play in the Luxembourg Gardens, a plump bakery girl in leg-of-mutton sleeves pushing her wicker cart, a crew of pavers at work on a Paris street...
...lines in perfectly controlled harmony. Tragedy, humor, severity, flippancy, in Belloc's view, must go hand in hand in literature, as they do in life. So, when one of his Four Men puts to the others the question, "What is the best thing in the world?", the Sailor answers: "Flying at full speed . . . and keeping up hammer and thud and gasp and bleeding till the knees fail and the head goes dizzy." But the Poet says: "[The best thing in the world] is a mixture [of] great wads of unexpected money, new landscapes, and the return of old loves...