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...again serve his country as our Officer in Charge. It is the students' hope and prayer that he will have smooth sailing (as a Convey Commander), for as one of the fellows remarked, "Gee, I hope when my assignment comes through, I'll have a skipper like Commander MacGowan...
Action in the North Atlantic (Warner Bros.) is a celluloid glorification of the U.S. merchant marine. To accomplish its business, it signs on First Mate Humphrey Bogart under Skipper Raymond Massey and puts these tough, tenderhearted salts safely through a disaster-laden, pulp-fictional log of two wartime Atlantic crossings. In an interval ashore, Bogart punctuates the voyages with one of his own patented semicolons by finding just enough time to saunter into a waterfront dive, sock a loose-talking barfly and marry the blonde, black-gowned entertainer of the place almost before she can finish throating Night...
Tuesday morning, they belayed classed for us so we could watch the commissioning exercises of these men who had been such playboys to us for the past five days. The skipper said they had made quite a record. One of the neophytes told us that "the only reason you middles are here at commissioning is as a living example to us of what we've been through up to today...
Between the words of the skipper and the side remark of that young ensign, gentlemen, I suppose we have some sort of a keynote of what we're in for. Class number One of midshipmen has set quite a record for us. In spite of the lounging we've seen them doing (and not much else that we've seen) they must have really scooted around this place night and day to make the grade (first third of it, anyway) and what we heard and saw on Tuesday is really a goal to set for this class... providing "a case...
...Skipper. Chief of the sea's handy men is a quiet, 56-year-old Marylander, Vice Admiral Russell Randolph Waesche (rhymes with "may she"). He has headed his organization almost seven years, longer than Army's Marshall, Navy's King and the Marines' Holcomb have headed theirs. Jumped from commander to rear admiral over many senior officers, efficient Russell Waesche is the first Coast Guard chief to wear a vice admiral's three stars. From 17,000 men, the Coast Guard since Dec. 7, 1941 has grown to almost...