Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Often the scandals involve girls from the so-called "colored" groups;-their light skins are a constant source of confusion to sailors and other foreigners in the Cape. When one seaman from Sweden was recently sentenced to eight strokes with a police cane for attempting sexual relations with a non-European, his Swedish captain protested angrily: "Cape Town is full of beautiful colored girls who look exactly like southern Europeans to anyone from Scandinavia...
...style is equally successful, but this time is it an aging mariner who is caught between dream and reality. The landlubber friends of his childhood nurse the old dreams of his glory--of freedom and roving and life on the open seas. Few illusions remain for the seaman himself. But when the adolescent daughter of his two friends fails to remember his lost grandeur, the old sailor is lost. This innocent cruelty is his final ruin...
...loosely strung "anthology series" with room for a wide variety of stars (sometimes including Powell himself) and material, has won steadily good reviews and the sort of ratings that turn admen respectful. Producer Powell has scored triumphs of surprise casting: Mickey Rooney in a superb portrayal of a lonely seaman in Somebody's Waiting, Milton Berle as a blackjack dealer in Doyle Against the House, Jack Carson as a beatnik in Who Killed Julie Greer? Under the subtle direction of Ralph Nelson, Four Star's Three Soldiers (about mercenaries) was one of the outstanding dramatic productions...
...about Britain looking for properties to buy, Thomson crossed the path of the group's proprietor, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 51, a recluse so unsociable that he has been photographed only three times in 30 years. An indefatigable voyager, Sir John usually travels incognito, often signing on as seaman on one of his own merchant ships. For all his eccentricities, he has demonstrated a remarkable affinity for money, has swelled to $280 million the $81 million shipping fortune he inherited in 1933. Among the vast Ellerman holdings: breweries, real estate-and the largest single share in Cecil King...
Lots of people liked Julian Harvey. A handsome, curly-headed, flat-bellied man of 44, he was a familiar figure around the Florida ports where he worked as a captain and sometime seaman on chartered yachts. He was a weight lifter and a physical-fitness cultist, with a stammer that somehow seemed to enhance his charm. Moreover, he was as brave as he was likable. For 16 years Harvey had been in the Air Force. He flew in North Africa, Europe and the South Pacific during World War II. Between wars he won a special commendation for deliberately ditching planes...