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...Princeton (he now holds an honorary degree of Litt. D. from Yale). In a mood of youthful truculence, he prospected for gold in Honduras, married his first wife (whom he later divorced), repeatedly went to sea taking any job he could get, finally wound up as an able-bodied seaman. For O'Neill the discovery of the sea was almost a religious experience. Later in Manhattan, he bummed around at a saloon called Jimmy the Priest's (Jimmy was the prototype of the saloon keeper in The Iceman Cometh). Later he acted in his father's stock...
...active wartime seamen. When losses on the North Atlantic dropped off, bonuses were cut, and the wage scale of the Merchant Marine, figured on an annual basis, was aligned with that of the Army and Navy so that no great difference existed. On the face of it, an Ordinary Seaman figuring up a pay-off of $1500 for a six months trip might cause a member of the Naval Armed Guard to utter some unholy things about his own $76 or $92 monthly draw. But members of the Armed Forces and the public at large rarely stop to compute...
Died. Frank Seaman Dymoke, 84, hereditary King's Champion,* whose family has held the office since 1377 and who himself bore the standard of England at the coronations of Edward VII, George V and George VI; in London...
...Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s semi-classic, is no more unfaithful to its original than most screen adaptions. Taken as plain fiction, Two Years Before the Mast is a good, rough sea story. Taken as Paramount presents it-as a faithful Dana report of the U.S. merchant seaman's lot a century ago-it sounds and looks like a job of rewriting by one of the more fanatical members of the National Maritime Union...
...other episodes in Mister Roberts are just as simple-a quarrel between two roommates, the achievement of gonorrhea by a seaman at an apparently barren island-but they are told with aptitude and humor. Author Heggen, 27, who now writes for the Reader's Digest, served aboard an assault transport in the Pacific, at Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, thereby seeing somewhat more action at sea than the Reluctant...