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...With the new Marcq St.-Hilaire navigating system learned in school, a refinement of which is now in common use in the Navy, Manning soon distinguished himself as a navigator, and was made quartermaster the second trip out. Then, while making Nantucket in choppy seas one day, he got seasick at the wheel, flubbed the captain's orders and was fired at the end of the voyage. Manning next shipped out to the Pacific for eleven months on the four-masted sailing ship Dirigo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Invasion, 1952 | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...burlesque of Johnny Ray's bestseller Cry, is the work of Stan Freberg, 25, an exponent of the Al Capp-Henry Morgan school of humor, who is otherwise known to Los Angeles' junior TV fans as Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent on the Time for Beany show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: It's the Style | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...inspiration for The Dutchman came to Wagner during a seasick voyage in a small sailboat through the Baltic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Dutchman Cometh | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...belts and jewelry, staged another uproarious carnival. At a border village, scores of Indians were staggering around the patio of a house where a wedding fiesta was in progress. In a room off the patio sat the bride and bridegroom, immobile, glassy-eyed, unable even to speak. "They are seasick," explained a guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Social Evil | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

Some critics maintain he never made it. They consider that Waugh's green seas and white breakers lack the seasick lift and crash of the real thing, that his notion of daylight was a drab one, and that his wet brown rocks might as well have been chocolate ice cream. The public disagrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vote-Getter | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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