Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read with interest Mr. Starbuck's letter (TIME, May 3) telling TIME readers of the merchant seaman's desire for books. This good correspondent from the way he writes is no doubt a deck officer and rudely forgets to include ship's engineers as also being great readers not only of magazines but the classics...
True the Merchant Marine Library has been a Godsend to the American merchant seaman whether on deck, in engine room or pantry...
...Jellicoe, Earl Kitchener; that because of an ancient squabble over precedent, the King's golden spurs, symbol of knighthood, were carried one apiece by Lord Hastings and Lord Churston; and that the bearer of the Standard of England had no title at all but was plain Mr. Frank Seaman Dymoke of Scrivelsby Court, who has the hereditary right of being King's Champion. Mr. Dymoke's ancestors were supposed to ride in full armor into Westminster Hall, fling down a gantlet and challenge to mortal combat any who doubted the right to the throne of the newly...
...either seaman or landlubber, can fail to get a thrill out of those shots of the schooner plowing through the seas, scuppers awash; or fail to get a sense of peace from seeing the vessel ghosting through a Grand Banks fog. At last Hollywood has realized the possibilities of filming the sea accurately and dramatically, and it will now stand besides the photography of "Man of Aran." Do not fail to see this picture...
TIME keeps many a seaman from being left in the lurch about what the world is doing, and FORTUNE is so damned fascinating that the educational articles are fed to us with the sugar coated pill of entertainment. An easy pill for all hands to swallow...