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...Gothic Tale. In London, the Admiralty granted Leading Seaman Walter W. Hampson leave, flew him to his Plymouth home from Malta after his wife complained their house had been haunted for the past two months by a terrifying, headless, black and white phantom...
When the annulment was granted, the Chinese seaman's lawyers appealed. Last week the Virginia Supreme Court reviewed the constitutionality of the law for the first time and upheld it. Said Justice Archibald C. Buchanan: "We are unable to read in the 14th Amendment . . . any words or intendment which prohibit the state from enacting legislation to preserve the racial integrity of its citizens . . . so that it shall not have a mongrel breed of citizens. We find there is no requirement that the state shall not legislate to prevent the obliteration of racial pride, but must permit the corruption...
...sucker-bait freighter, and to make vengeance dead sure, rams and sinks all lifeboats. Even when the yarn runs right away with him, Author Beach keeps jamming in the authentic details, the tingling stress, the sweaty crush, of the submariners' war. This is he-man's, seaman's, reading, with only a dash of home-base romance...
...case for debate tonight concerns a widow who sues a shipping company for negligence in the death of her husband, a seaman...
...Paul Gauguin was a strapping fellow with a bull neck, a great beak of a nose, and hooded, blue-green eyes. His stockbroker's black business suit sat strangely on him because he looked like a pirate chief and walked with the rolling sway of a seaman. He had spent part of his childhood in Peru (where his mother took him to visit relatives after his journalist father died). In his teens, Paul ran away to sea and put in six years before the mast. "Oh, I was a great rascal!" he would later say, "a remarkable liar...