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Landlubbers may think that a U.S. naval officer spends most of his time on shipboard either leading the fight or practicing for it. This notion would be shaken if landlubbers could see an officer's tall, steel desk, a formidable affair with apparently enough drawers, slats and pigeonholes for a post office. For the streams of red tape on land flow right out to sea. An officer spends many an hour shuffling papers in the pigeonholes, dictating to a yeoman or even hunting and pecking on his portable, creating more red tape for other officers to shuffle...
With his All-American Youths Stokowski took a crew of Columbia recording engineers, mainly to make symphonic discs on shipboard. But while the ship was docked at Rio, Conductor Stokowski lined up Brazilian talent. In one mad session lasting a whole day and night, native groups filed on & off the boat. Results: these two albums...
...broadcasts to the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 26), the Jap knew better than to take the delicately sadistic Oriental line. For short wave to the U.S., Radio Tokyo put Wake Island prisoners on the air by means of recordings, some apparently made on shipboard. The messages, as heard by NBC and U.P. listening posts, indicated that the men had been treated with the respect they deserved. Examples...
...Bowditch first went to sea. Later on he used to say that he never wanted to. He was a strange looking sailor-small (about 5 ft. 4 in.) with a high forehead and already grey hair. He was also "invincibly cheerful." His knowledge of mathematics got him on shipboard "through the cabin window" instead of the usual way, "through the hawsehole"-i.e., he began as a ship's clerk instead of a common sailor...
Broadcasting from Paine Hall for the first time in its career, the Crimson Network will present tonight between 9.30 and 10 o'clock a radio play by William Tying '41 called "Young Lycidas." The play, the action of which takes place entirely on shipboard, is based on the strange disappearance of one of John Milton's friends, which later inspired the poet to write his poem, "Lycidas...