Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...induction last May. But Holzer knew his own plan so much better than his superiors that OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown got his induction stayed. Fortnight ago the crucial stage of the mailing safely past, Good Bureaucrat Holzer reported to Fort Myer, Va., was assigned to the Navy as an apprentice seaman in the Seabees. Given the Navy's usual week furlough before going on active duty, Clerk Holzer turned up at the New York OPA office, spent the week helping mail more Ration Books...
...also a brave and foolish cat. After it had finished eating about forty helpings of fish it wandered through a door that was bad to go through because the cat, although very intelligent and handsome, was really just an Apprentice Seaman and didn't belong in the Officers' mess. But he was a lucky sailor, and he walked out unscathed, not even restricted from weekend liberty...
...that the first shock of re-entering the status of Apprentice Seaman has passed, these men who have learned the value of ratings and rank from fleet duty are headed for the Ensign's full stripe. Most of them hope to return to the same type of service from which they were drawn...
...Previous Chaplin wives: Mildred Harris (1918-20), Lita Grey (1924-27), Paulette Goddard (1936-42). †O'Neill offspring: by 1909-12 wife Kathleen Jenkins, 33-year-old Yale assistant professor of Greek Eugene Jr.; by 1918-29 wife Agnes Boulton, 23-year-old seaman Shane, Oona...
...Ella Thomas of Georgia, WAVES third class yeoman. She was brushing up on English grammar in Atlanta, where she has a Navy clerical job. > Seaman First-Class Marvin R. Eienbass of Michigan, studying on the high seas to be an automobile mechanic. In six lessons he has had no grade lower than...