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...discontented are on their way to England and a better break. For most of them, the break comes in the heart. Aboard their slow ship, the islanders have plenty of time to talk things over. Many of them expect to study and learn trades. For, as Higgins, a former stoker, puts it: "Education an' qualification an' distinction is the order o' de day." Higgins is heading for a cooks' school, hopes to wind up in the galley of the Queen Mary. Collis wants to be a writer. Dickson expects to get a teaching...
...stirred up the British press, public and Parliament and embarrassed the Admiralty. The run of incidents stretches back to pre-Korean war days: sand slipped into lubricating systems and steering gear, wiring cut, gauges and indicators smashed, equipment and ammunition thrown overboard at sea. Early this year, a stoker on the light aircraft-carrier Ocean was caught and sentenced to 15 months for smashing pressure gauges, sight glasses, clocks, lights and other equipment. When H.M.S. Eagle, Britain's newest, biggest and costliest carrier, left Portland last month, she could fire no salute because the guns had been disabled. Also...
...Cover) By the evening of Thursday, Feb. 25, 1954, Senator Joe McCarthy, after a fortnight of mounting frenzy, had built the smallest of molehills into one of the most devastating political volcanoes that ever poured the lava of conflict and the ash of dismay over Washington. Joe, the stoker, was still disorganized but quick-witted, charging in and out of his Senate office, snatching up telephones, rushing to the Senate floor to answer quorum calls, dictating statements to reporters. As he dashed about, his office staff lost track, believed a rumor that he had emplaned for New York. Then...
More interesting were the works of Russia's pre-revolutionary artists. Not so concerned with depicting Utopia, they showed pathetic trains of cold-numbed peasants crossing the steppes on sleighs, a stooped little stoker with immense gnarled hands, weary Volga boatmen, a slushy country road stretching across endless plains...
...charming Billo had slathers of luck. It had never deserted him in the years in which he lifted himself from stoker to hod carrier to bartender to cop to D.A. to brigadier general in the U.S. Army to mayor. It did not desert him when the roof began falling in on him at city hall. Democratic bosses figured a special city election in 1950 would be just the thing to rouse the faithful and help put a Democrat in the governor's chair in Albany. Harry Truman swallowed hard, but in the hope (later proved false) of carrying...