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Married. Byron Raymond ("Whizzer") White, 28, brainy onetime Colorado halfback (All-America 1937) and Rhodes scholar, lately a PT-boat skipper, now a law student at Yale; and Marion Stearns, 24, ex-WAVE daughter of University of Colorado President Robert L. Stearns; in Boulder, Colo...
...Cornwall Canal, pickets hurled mud and clayballs at protecting "Mounties," as the motorship Redwood entered the lowest lock. Crewmen left the ship to join the strikers, forced the skipper to go back. Soon 18 ships were blocked in the canal...
There were rumblings of mutiny below decks, and up on the bridge the skipper heard them. Joe Curran, strapping (6 ft. 2) president of the salty, swashbuckling National Maritime Union, wanted to keelhaul a few of the hands who had first boosted him up from...
Both big Joe Curran and his disaffected shipmates would probably be reelected. The Communists weren't after the skipper's stripes; they just wanted to wring some of the salt from his socks. Curran would keep the crew if they would show a little more respect for the Old Man. But until the beefs were squared away, N.M.U. would be a loose ship...
...Blame. The Navy top command had disagreed on disciplinary action. Nimitz said he had wanted to give Captain Charles B. McVay III, skipper of the Indianapolis, nothing worse than a letter of reprimand, "but the Department in Washington saw fit to disregard my recommendation." A compromise had at last been reached...