Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rainbow Island (Paramount) is a Technicolored mythical kingdom somewhere west of Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, inhabited by Dorothy Lamour and sarong, three shipwrecked seamen (Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb, Barry Sullivan), and assorted natives. It involves: 1) an aquacade sequence-a ritual of "purification" for Miss Lamour; 2) a comedy act involving Eddie Bracken and a very hungry man-eating flower; 3) some amusingly parodistic Oriental music by Roy Webb and a catchy song, The Boogie, Woogie, Boogie Man; 4) enough general ribbing of sarong and tomtom pictures to make a thin but fairly likable piece of musical ridiculousness...
Which party, he asked, was so afraid of the soldiers' vote that it had tried its best to keep all U.S. servicemen from voting? The President charged flatly: "Millions of soldiers and sailors and merchant seamen have been handicapped or prevented from voting by those politicians and those candidates who think that they stand to lose by such votes...
There was not an undamaged house within three miles of the kindling wood which had been the water front; scores of buildings were flat or leaning tipsily. Hardly a man, woman or child was un-bandaged. Three hundred and twenty-one men were dead-merchant seamen on the vessels and Negro naval enlisted men on the wharf had simply vanished...
...rain bow, as the seaward-looking Chamorros saw it, were most of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and 'the ships of the Third Amphibious Group under round-faced, round-bellied Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly. At the end of the rainbow, as the shoreward-looking U.S. seamen and assault troops saw it, was the airstrip on Orote Peninsula...
...merchant seamen, whose casualty rate has been five times that of the armed forces, have had to depend for medical care on the captain (or first mate) and his medicine kit. Last week the Maritime Service announced that the purser* will henceforth be the "ship's doctor...