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...environs has certainly heard John B. (for Bradley) Gambling some morning or other. With his Musical Clock, his all-in-fun setting-up exercises, cheerio music, wheezy gags, weather information and news scraps, John B. Gambling has been a WOR fixture for 15 years. Once he was a British seaman on a World War I mine sweeper. He got his job at WOR as a technician in 1925 at $30 a week. Now he says he makes $25,000 a year at his early-bird program, has had a parade of sponsors of whom the current ones are Bond clothes...
...former Australian seaman linked his deportation proceedings, recently tried before Dean Landis of the Law School, with attempts of industry to crack the union movement and said that in the trial "we were fighting to expose the entire corrupt machine of industry, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the immigration authorities...
...Corvo Island in the Azores the fantastic rock formation that Columbus had seen through fog and mist and which seemed to him to point west. Twenty days from the Canaries to Trinidad-it had taken Columbus 26-convinced the seafaring Professor that Columbus was a very fine seaman, who "could get to a place and then come back and find it again when he wished," who was good at dead reckoning, and who, like the old Yankee skippers, "was good by guess and by God." Greatest triumph of the rediscoverers came when Capitana made the same landfall Columbus had made...
When Capitana, after 20 days, reached the approximate position where Columbus said he had seen Trinidad, Professor Morison sent young, square-jawed Seaman Malcolm Armstrong aloft. Seaman Armstrong climbed to the royal yard, called back laconically, "There's them three hills...
Fiercely, repeatedly the British denied their Repulse was hit. Seaman Vincent Marchant, who managed to get overside from Royal Oak and swim ashore through the tons of oil which cloyed and dragged down others, tended to corroborate Prien's 30-second version as against the Admiralty's 2O-minute one. Marchant's story seemed to refute Prien's belief that he hit Repulse. Marchant told of four hits on Royal Oak. After the first explosion, he just had time to get from his hammock to the deck. Then followed the second, third and fourth blasts. Evidently...