Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Bryant Edward Moore was a soldier by profession but a sailor by avocation. A down-Easter by birth (Ellsworth, Me.), he spent as much time as he could aboard his big sailing yacht or his Star Class racer...
...story takes place aboard H.M.S. Indomitable in 1798, the year after the British mutiny at the Nore. Billy Budd is a handsome, blue-eyed, stammering young sailor who radiates innocence and good will, and is a favorite with the whole ship. The one exception is the master-at-arms, John Claggart, a figure of Mephistophelean evil, who, hating all goodness, cannot but hate Billy Budd and plot his destruction. He accuses Billy, in the presence of high-principled Captain Vere, of fomenting mutiny...
Curly & Johnny. But that did not cure the trouble. The hottest syndicate at Mar del Plata this year was 20 strong, and raked in earnings estimated as high as 6,000,000 pesos. It was headed by a onetime Nazi sailor, nicknamed El Alemán, who first came to Argentina in 1939 when the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was scuttled after the Battle of the Rio de la Plata. Among the other big moneymakers were fruit hucksters, waiters and farmers, who were soon buying Cadillacs, Buicks and beach property. Known only by nicknames such as El Crespo (Curly...
...Contino is not the world's greatest accordion player; others have the same flying-finger technique. But none has ever surpassed his showmanship. "When he digs into a tune," one admirer puts it, "he becomes as passionate as a sailor on his first night ashore." Says Erskine Johnson, Hollywood columnist: "He looks down his accordion the way Gilbert used to look down Garbo...
...present on board H. M. S. Indomitable in the year 1797 in the form of John Claggart, the Master-at-Arms. Claggart represents not merely human weakness and cruelty--he is simpler than that. Claggart is pure, malicious evil. His counterpart in good is Billy Budd, an ingenuous young sailor who is as kind and friendly as he is handsome. Claggart is an abandoned cynic who cannot see good in man, while Billy cannot recognize evil...