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Navy enlisted man, dredges up a Neanderthal boatswain's mate named Farragut Jones who speaks basic English, all of it four-letter unprintables. Marblehead copes with a case of "ultimate fraternization" or "love-by that I mean plain, raw, unadulterated sex" between a yeoman and a nurse. He sits out an enlisted men's "mutiny" (they want 14 bottles of beer once a week, rather than two a day) and a correspondent's revolt (he wants his sheets changed every day), but almost founders under the first news of the atomic bomb ("That Air Force propaganda mill...
JOHN W. BRESLIN Yeoman First Class, U.S.N. Bethesda...
Down at Yale's Ray Tompkins House, Charley Loftus does a yeoman's job. He mimeographs more publicity about the Eli swimming team than most information offices spread on all sports in toto. This is all very good only for Yale, however. Because Loftus' rightful line is Blue, and because city sports editors have more important concerns than collegiate dualmeet swimming, practically no one cares to doubt or work over Yale sports information releases, and the Eli bombardment hits the press one-sidedly...
...Washington tried to pack into 60 minutes the entire story of a businessman in government, from his hopeful arrival, through his first miscues, to his humiliation before a Senate investigating committee. Author David Davidson struck boldly through the tangled swamp known as Conflict of Interest, but not even yeoman work by Melvyn Douglas and Ed Begley could make the main issues clear. Climax! starred Michael Rennie in Man of Taste, a melodrama about an art dealer who had a method for improving the price on his artists' paintings-he simply killed them off after they had done enough canvases...
...Umass coach Charlie O'Rourke's opinion, far better than last year's top-flight forward wall. It consistently rushed UMass passers and held the losers to a bare 110 yards on the ground. Harvard totaled 510. It is a thinking line, to judge from the care such yeoman performers as Bill Meigs and Orville Tice took not to commit themselves too early in a play...