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...villain (or its goat) one Harry Jarvinen, 32, a naturalized citizen of the U.S. and a travel agency executive in Seattle. A Finnish army veteran, Jarvinen came to New York in 1941, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943, later worked in the immigration service and as a seaman before going into the travel agency line. For the past six years, he has been an unpaid, occasional tipster of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...circles where the talk runs to such refined remarks as, "May I escort you to the punch bowl?" She also undergoes a moral reformation. She turns up her nose at a life of luxury by spurning two handsome, wealthy suitors, and runs off instead with poor but honest Seaman Hudson, who has followed her to San Francisco. By the fadeout, Yvonne has obviously acquired class. Unfortunately, Scarlet Angel never does...
...School, with his sextant took a sight on success. Says Manning: "I was a fanatic on navigation." He was the smallest in his class, but he was also smart and tough. Two years and many fistfights later, he shipped out on the St. Paul as a $15-a-month seaman. With the new Marcq St.-Hilaire navigating system learned in school, a refinement of which is now in common use in the Navy, Manning soon distinguished himself as a navigator, and was made quartermaster the second trip out. Then, while making Nantucket in choppy seas one day, he got seasick...
...duchy passed on to Nelson's heirs; in 1937, it fell to the present modest and serious viscount, Rowland Arthur Herbert Nelson Hood, descended from the families of three British naval greats-Nelson, Hood and Hood's brother, Lord Bridport. A seaman like his ancestors, the present Lord Bridport went to the naval training college at Dartmouth, was a midshipman aboard H.M.S. Nelson for three years, fought as a lieutenant commander in World War II. Mussolini confiscated his duchy during the war, but Lord Bridport got it back and returned...
Supporters of Wood promptly chimed in with chapter and verse. Wrote one: "An able seaman in one of His Majesty's ships was heard grumbling after the captain had ticked off the ship's company for slackness: 'I don't know 'ow anyone expects anything to go right in this blinkin' ship when the padre prays every day-"prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings...