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Because such cases are far from common, Dr. Althausen counted himself lucky when, on a visit to Australia last year, he ran across a third and most unusual case A wiry, freckled, 50-year-old seaman named Bergman had been left with only two feet of jejunum and duodenum. He worked on a soot-grimed freighter pitching and rolling across Bass Strait between Melbourne and Tasmania. Althausen and Melbourne's Dr. Ronald Doig made one interesting discovery in studying the sailor: it made no difference to his two feet of small intestine whether he got predigested or ordinary food...
North Carolina's husky, handsome, 54-year-old Congressman Thurmond Chatham is a man who likes people, parties, a well-bottomed drink-and doing what he pleases. He surprised his Yale classmates by passing up officer training courses, enlisting as a seaman in the Navy in World War I. He startled fellow businessmen by expanding instead of contracting the family business (Chatham blankets) during the Depression, a gamble which eventually made him a millionaire. During World War II he wangled a demotion-from commander to lieutenant commander-to get into combat on a cruiser in the Southwest Pacific...
Washington's Warren G. Magnuson stood up on the floor of the Senate to read a letter. Written by a U.S. merchant seaman to an officer with the Seventh Fleet off the China coast, it said: "I am on a ship I am ashamed to be aboard . . . We are blockade running [to] Communist China. We are hauling thousands of drums of oil and gasoline . . . and steel armor plate, tools and parts to the damned Reds . . . If you guys sight us you ought to blow this [ship] sky-high even though she flies the American flag...
Menagerie is the reminiscence of a merchant seaman (Arthur Kennedy) about his life with mother (Gertrude Lawrence) and sister (Jane Wyman) in a shabby St. Louis flat across the alley from a dance hall. Mother, a onetime Southern belle long ago deserted by her husband, is a flibbertigibbet who clings to her airs of gentility, her magnolia-scented memories and a fierce desire to find a husband for her crippled, pathologically shy daughter...
...days. Jungle Road is General Bob's story of the infantry in that war. Coming after such chesty accounts as Seaman "Bull" Halsey's and Airman George Kenney's, it seems almost sober and reflective, but it is a tribute to the embattled foot soldier and a deeply felt one. No army general spent so much time at the front and few appreciated so clearly what they were asking of their...