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...Palizzi's sailors told what they knew. The crate had been nailed up in Sofia 40 days earlier. It had been taken by train to Burgas, where it had lain on the dock for many days. Said one sailor "The man inside was lucky, for usually such crates are opened by the Burgas customs." The crate had been stowed away in the hold of the Palizzi. There it had remained as the little ship steamed through the Bosporus to Istanbul, Smyrna and Genoa where arrangements had been made to fumigate the hold. Said a sailor later...
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...
Polite Little Smile. One of the most charming portraits in the show is of a beautiful five-year-old in a sailor suit, meant to be Vertès himself. At 55, he looks like a heavy-set Mephisto, whose brow, nose and mouth form three emphatic Vs. "My friends," Vertès admits, "smile a little at my self-portrait and say very politely, 'I don't think it's too much...
...sailor in Malta asked for the roar of the crowd when his soccer team (Tottenham Hotspurs) scored a goal; another wanted to hear his favorite pub owner calling the traditional closing-time chant: "Time, gentlemen, please!"; an airman asked for a "cockney barrow boy selling his wares." Oddest request came from a lonesome telegrapher in South Africa: he wanted to hear again the thunder of airplanes roaring low over his home just before they landed at London Airport...
...scuttlebutt around Boston's sprawling Navy Yard was too hot to ignore. For a price, went the rumors, a sailor could get a peek at secret examination questions, latch on to a promotion, or wangle a cushy desk job instead of sea duty. The commandant of the First Naval District started an investigation...