Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chairman of their meeting was Thomas McKay, 27. Graduated from college at 20, Thomas chose an unpromising vocation-selling bonds in Wall Street in 1933. He made up to $100 a week at it, soon got bored, went to sea as an ordinary seaman. By last week he was back at bond selling, had got an M.A. (in economics) and was studying nights for a Ph.D. Also present: Mrs. Helen Whitebook, radio writer, Jeanne Weiss, secretary...
...former ordinary and non-union seaman of the City of Rayville, along with being a longtime TIME reader ... I was slightly disappointed over the fact that you people didn't make more of it than what you did [TIME, Nov. 18], Aside from the fact that the City of Rayville was my home for over a year and a half, I still think that she earned more descriptive notoriety than what you allowed since she is the first ship under an American flag to be sunk, in this...
Randleman, N. C. had the distinction last week of being the home town of the first (and only) U. S. seaman to drown in the sinking of the first U. S. vessel sunk by the Axis-the 5,883-ton freighter City of Rayville (Tampa, Fla.). The ship apparently hit a mine, presumably laid by the same raider that had previously mined antipodean waters (TIME, July 1) in Bass Strait, between Australia and Tasmania. (A few hours earlier an unidentified British freighter had met the same fate.) Third Engineer Mac B. Bryan of Randleman, N. C. leaped overboard from...
...Dover, now a way station on Hell's Corridor from Dunkirk to London, tall (6 ft. 5 in.), eccentric, Harvard-bred Guy Murchie of the Chicago Tribune, a onetime seaman, chauffeur, section hand, longshoreman, gravedigger, author (Men on the Horizon), was standing by a window in his top-floor hotel room while a squadron of German bombers droned overhead. He was talking with two naval officers and his assistant, Australian Stanley Johnstone, when there was an explosion. The whole side of the hotel collapsed. Down through four floors dropped Newsman Murchie in a shower of timbers, bricks, soot, debris...
...fancy premieres simultaneously in three large London theatres, they extol British courage in a salty, moving account of the bombing of the East Dudgeon lightship in the North Sea. This one also shows what Blitzkrieg has done to British film censorship. During the attack on the lightship a gnarled seaman crouching on the open deck looks up at a Heinkel raking the ship with machine-gun fire, spits out: "The dirty bastards...