Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortnight ago. Seaman Recruit Joseph Wilkowski reported to sick bay at the San Diego Naval Training Center. From his symptoms-including stiff neck and a rash-the medics decided they were up against meningitis, inflammation of the protective sheathing of the spinal cord and brain. And among the many microbes that can cause meningitis, they identified the cause of Wilkowski's illness as the meningococcus...
Once, the Queen actually sailed into a New Jersey port with fires smoldering, unloaded her cargo, and sailed off again-still burning. The crewmen were in constant fear and complained to their union. A furloughed crewman, Able Seaman Zack Booth, a huge fellow known to his friends as "Big Brother," testified that one sailor, now missing, told him: "Big Brother, we are about to burn our house down...
Said Mrs. Adam Martin, wife of an engineer whose first voyage aboard the Queen was also his last: "I never wanted to be a seaman's wife, but he had to earn a living. I came to see him off. The poor soul. I felt sorry for him when he first saw his new ship. It looked like an old garbage can afloat...
Leinsdorf uses no baton and conducts with a stiff and angular style. His dress coat reaches nearly to his ankles, and from the audience he looks like an aging seaman sending semaphore signals to some distant ship. The Boston has the longest season of all (50 weeks), including Tanglewood in the summer and-for the 92 members willing to play Viennese waltzes and champagne music-a stint with Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops...
...minutes. The Bounty wallops along at a merry clip and proves splendidly seeworthy. Captain Bligh (Trevor Howard) and Lieutenant Christian (Brando), bound for Tahiti to pick up a cargo of breadfruit seedlings, commence a duel of wills as soon as they put to sea. When the captain gives a seaman 24 cuts of the cat for calling him a thief, the lieutenant reasonably inquires: "If one punishes a man so severely for a minor infraction, what does one do for a serious offense?" When the captain turns the ship unexpectedly, causing a tun of water to crush another seaman...