Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sweden, a Stockholm justice fined a young sailor and his love for kissing in public, on the grounds that such open display of affection constitutes "obnoxious behavior repulsive to all public morals...
...Lipsky, the film is played as though everyone concerned enjoyed making it. Director John Sturges draws a distinctive gallery of urban types, with zoot-suited William Campbell as a gabby delinquent, John Hodiak as a district attorney torn between ambition and pity, and Jay C. Flippen as a Scandinavian sailor out to make a quick buck. Tracy generates considerable sympathy as the unstable lawyer, makes understandable the willingness of both the police and the underworld to help him out of a tough spot...
After a few hours at one of these taverns, a sailor might feel the need to be tattoed. He won't have to go far, since there are five late-working jab artists within easy walking distance. The best of these, a rotund gentleman named Frank W. Liberty, claims to have had the honor of applying pigment to the undergraduate arm of one of the Roosevelt boys; he doesn't know which...
...King George V and Queen Mary appeared amid pennants and bunting, and the town swarmed with bluejackets from the U.S. battleship Utah, which lay offshore. One of them, Chief Yeoman Ralph Everett Crawshaw, a quiet young man, was mail clerk on the Utah. Whether or not he exercised a sailor's prerogative and got drunk that gala day was a question which for 30 years was to bother Navy brass, four U.S. Presidents and seven sessions of Congress...
...explained that he had always been a "biologist" at heart, and never a sailor. "Being a member of the Imperial family," he said, "I had no freedom of choosing my vocation...