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...also a brave and foolish cat. After it had finished eating about forty helpings of fish it wandered through a door that was bad to go through because the cat, although very intelligent and handsome, was really just an Apprentice Seaman and didn't belong in the Officers' mess. But he was a lucky sailor, and he walked out unscathed, not even restricted from weekend liberty...
...that the first shock of re-entering the status of Apprentice Seaman has passed, these men who have learned the value of ratings and rank from fleet duty are headed for the Ensign's full stripe. Most of them hope to return to the same type of service from which they were drawn...
...Previous Chaplin wives: Mildred Harris (1918-20), Lita Grey (1924-27), Paulette Goddard (1936-42). †O'Neill offspring: by 1909-12 wife Kathleen Jenkins, 33-year-old Yale assistant professor of Greek Eugene Jr.; by 1918-29 wife Agnes Boulton, 23-year-old seaman Shane, Oona...
...last moment, were clinging to the Spencer's ropes. The first taken aboard flopped on the deck, shivering uncontrollably in his wet clothes. Another merely clung to a line, moaning and making no effort to help himself. "Hold your water, bub, we'll save you," said a seaman, as he was lowered over the side to give a hand. From either side desolate, streaming figures were fished from the water. One gasped a weak "Heil Hitler" and an angry seaman threatened him with an oar. Wet, exhausted, stripped of their sodden clothes, they were given thick, white blankets...
...Ella Thomas of Georgia, WAVES third class yeoman. She was brushing up on English grammar in Atlanta, where she has a Navy clerical job. > Seaman First-Class Marvin R. Eienbass of Michigan, studying on the high seas to be an automobile mechanic. In six lessons he has had no grade lower than...