Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long time, Norway's nautical Princess Astrid, 28, has been known to her countrymen as "the sad one." Her sadness began in 1951, when her father, King Olaf V, himself a topnotch sailor, searched for a good hand to sail in Sunday regattas with his daughter. On deck soon came a prosperous Oslo clothier, Johan Martin Ferner, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelors but. alas, a commoner. The pair became discreetly inseparable. In 1953 Astrid's older sister, Princess Ragnhild, married a shipowner and sailed off to Rio de Janeiro. Convinced that one commoner...
...little bins in Greenwich Village, Third Avenue bars, beer halls in Manhattan's German quarter. He took three weeks to learn the organ, played at Keith's Albee in Brooklyn. He also played the piano on a cruise ship that commuted between Miami and Havana. "I was a bad sailor," he says, "and had to throw up after every chorus...
Adds Viederman: "Nothing is sacred. Even the old bawdy ballad called 'Barnacle Bill the Sailor' takes on a new look." The Russian version...
Said Barnacle Bill the Sailor...
Said Barnacle Bill the Sailor...