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Equally at home in a waterfront tavern or in the salon of British kings (he was a personal friend of the late George V), he knows the world because he was bitten by it. When the Professor came back from Chicago, 20-year-old Jan got $80 from him and went to the U.S. The high-tension intellectuality of his father's house was too much for him ("the house was full of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Dostoevski"). His preference for America was motivated by more than the Continental legends of the Wild West and his father's limited...
...first picture last week of Durban Harbor's Perla Siedle (see cut), onetime Wagnerian soprano whose tireless waterfront singing to Allied convoys has made her one of South Africa's great wartime personalities (TIME, Nov. 15). Perla, known affectionately to thousands of soldiers and sailors as Durban's Lady in White, sings God Bless America for Yanks, There'll Always Be an England for Tommies, Waltzing Matilda for Aussies...
Tucked away in timbered, fish-oil-soaked sheds on Seattle's waterfront is a super hush-hush business : salmon egg canning. Though even Seattleites know little about it, this small-fry business is of strategic importance to fishermen everywhere...
...head the N.F.A.S. the ship operators chose ruddy, suave, Almon E. Roth, 57, known in West Coast shipping circles as one employers' representative who could match brains with razor-witted Longshoreman, Harry Bridges. Roth, as president ot the Waterfront Employers Association of the Pacific Coast, struggled with Bridges, but was finally instrumental in settling the paralyzing shipping strike...
...long ago a Boston patrol, made up of a physician, a druggist, a bookseller and an undertaker, spotted a fire in the coal docks, fought the blaze until the firemen arrived, probably saved the Boston waterfront from a major disaster...