Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subarctic Series. Brooklyn's left field had nothing on the W.S.L. for enthusiasm. Shouting sailors crowded the foul lines, jeering at umpiring officers. Some afternoons, $500 changed hands-a quarter of all the money in the fleet. The outstanding star was Seaman 1st Class Joe Sienko, a husky twirler who learned baseball in a Catholic Youth league in Massachusetts. Behind his pitching on the Fourth of July, the Navy All-Stars walked away with the W.S.L. World Series, whipping a picked Merchant Marine nine...
...cargo, probably slipped through. Lord Selborne, Britain's Minister of Economic Warfare, gave a hardheaded estimate that 75% of the German blockade-runners were sunk last year. That any get through at all, in this day of patrol planes and radio nets, is a proof of an old seaman's saw: the seas are vast...
...last Christmas, grey-haired, comfortable Mrs. Emma Van Coutren of New York City boasted eleven children in uniform: three WAGs, six bluejackets, one soldier and one merchant seaman. On Christmas Day, Child No. 12, young James, joined the Marines. Last week, after writing her usual dozen letters to her far-flung family, Mrs. Van Coutren made it a baker's dozen with a business like report to Franklin Roosevelt: "I am sorry to inform you, Mr. President, that the source of supply is now exhausted. . . .Selective Service will have to look elsewhere...
South Pacific (by Howard Rigsby & Dorothy Heyward; produced by David Lowe) is not a good play, but it has the fairly rare Broadway desire to by-pass trash for truth. It tells of a torpedoed Negro seaman (Canada Lee) who lands on a Jap-held South Pacific island. Having been pushed around for years in the U.S., Sam is cynical and rancorous, indifferent to who wins the war, delighted that, because of his dark skin, he can pose as a native. He finds a pretty Negro missionary girl and becomes a contented lotus-eater...
...score was 14-to-12, with 28 seconds to play. Unbeaten in nine games, outplayed in its tenth but ahead anyhow, Notre Dame was about to cinch its national championship. Then Seaman Steve Lach, former Duke and Chicago Cardinal star, heaved a 54-yard pass to Quarterback Paul Anderson, and that was the ball game: Notre Dame 14, Great Lakes Naval Training Station...