Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seaman first class...
Most recent BBC deserter is Organist Reginald Foort, whose fan-letter pile towers highest in British radio. Foort left a seaman's job to play a piano in a Lyons Corner House restaurant,* became Britain's most popular cinema organist. Organist Foort this week was officially on vacation, actually en route to Manhattan to pick up a new organ for an assault on the big money. He has resigned from BBC, will open in November a music-hall tour which guarantees him $13,000 for a year, almost three times his annual BBC earnings...
...Oslofjord's deck, as she poked up The Narrows of New York Harbor last week and eased into quarantine, paced an authentic-looking Viking. He was Able Seaman Eugen Knutsen, burdened for a reception tableau with a shirt of mail and the weight of 938 years of Norse legend. At quarantine, Viking Knutsen received a visitor. She was Rosebud Yellow Robe, sprightly, college-bred great grandniece of Sitting Bull. Last week Rosebud mislaid her peace pipe but gave sheepish Leif a beaded tobacco pouch and the welcoming ceremony was over...
Attacks on British ships in the 23-month-old war were brought to 60 and the 78th British seaman was killed. The British-owned port at Gandia, with Union Jacks painted on the rooftops, was bombed and machine-gunned in what British Manager Edwin Apfel called a "deliberate brazen attack on British property." At Denia, a raisin exporting centre, the French merchantman Brisbane was bombed, five seamen were killed, a British observer for the Non-intervention Committee killed and the captain injured. Farther down the coast at Alicante the British freighter St. Winifred and the 5,387-ton ship English...
Meanwhile last week there slipped completely out of Leftist Spain and over into France three ragged, mud-bespattered Abies & Georgies whose shoes were coming to pieces and who appeared half-starved. The most communicative of these was John Gordon Honeycombe, 37, of Los Angeles, a former U. S. seaman born at Ilion, N. Y. "I remember the last thing my wife said to me when I left her and my six-year-old kid in Los Angeles," mused Mr. Honeycombe. "She said: 'You'll regret the day you left for Spain.' She was right! The whole Republican...