Word: seamans
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Polls suggest that young Americans are sometimes more eager for battle, or anyway less wary. A 20-year-old seaman aboard the U.S.S. Wisconsin in the gulf wrote to his family, "I am glad I am the only one of my generation in our family to volunteer to serve his country. Hopefully I will make a triumphant return to Norfolk with a bunch of medals pinned to my uniform. It looks like the combat service ribbon is a shoo...
BUREAUS: Barrett Seaman (Deputy Chief of Correspondents); Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration) Special Correspondent: Michael Kramer Correspondent at Large: Bonnie Angelo Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Diplomatic Correspondent: Christopher Ogden...
BUREAUS: Barrett Seaman (Deputy Chief of Correspondents); Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration) Special Correspondent: Michael Kramer Correspondent at Large: Bonnie Angelo Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Diplomatic Correspondent: Christopher Ogden...
...else, the creators recast the leading role, a marooned English seaman who must make a life in Japan. Clavell originally wanted a Briton and hired Peter Karrie. Mounting discontent with him led the creators to turn to Casnoff, 37, who had sung the role ably at an informal audition but at the time struck them as too young, little known and American. Casnoff took the job but wanted further changes: "I was kind of outspoken because they had so much work to do in so little time. They were between an opera and a book musical, neither fish nor fowl...
BUREAUS: Barrett Seaman (Deputy Chief of Correspondents); Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration) Special Correspondent: Michael Kramer Correspondent at Large: Bonnie Angelo Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Diplomatic Correspondent: Christopher Ogden...