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regardless how old They were They were eagerly snapped up and read by all hands. During Theo dark and hard-ToughT days oT The Solomon campaign, The FOOTE began To publish iTs own paper. Willie Foss conceived and developed iT and became The ediTor oT The bi-weekly newspaper, The FOOTE-NOTES, which slogan was The GreaTesT LiTTle Paper ATloaT. ' A Tour-page mimeograph sheeT, iT broughT To The crew The well needed liTT wiTh a menu oT humor, saTire and inTernal gossip which was The delighT oT all hands, even Those who were The buTT oT The iokes. When aT The reTurn oT The FOOTF To CaliTornia, Foss wenT To The hospiTal, George D. WrighT, The liTTle man Trom New Orleans Took over The ediTorship and kepT The FOOTE-NOTES on Top oT The liTTle papers. LaTer The man wiTh The pills, Doc Gary l-lunTer Took over The job and kepr The banner Tlying. As an added aTTracTion, during The regime oT WrighT and l'lunTer, TalkaTive penswinger, Gene SchnaubelT became The sTaTT arTisT. IT is his drawings ThaT you see scaTTered ThroughouT This book. The FOOTE also had iTs own liTTle Madison Square Garden. The crew would geT TogeTher and rig up The TanTail lThaT's The aTTer end oT The shipl and have The pugilisTic boys show us The manly arT oT selT-deTense and The grunT and groan rackeT. Yes, There were many a greaT baTTle oT The cenTury ToughT in a Triendly and sporTing Tashion on The TanTail. One well remembers Those hecTic slugging maTches beTween Rough House Dannison and The Tormer Michigan welTer weighT champ Reed, and The round-house baTTles beTween MidgeT Siders and Muscles Brennan. Joe Jacobs could never produce TighTs like ThaT. WiTh The memories oT FisTicana we musT also remember The greaT sTage-shows, The l-lappy-l-lours ThaT was produced aboard The MighTy 5I l. During The lull in The war The TalenTed boys would geT TogeTher and puT on several good acTs. The spec- TaTors would siT, sTand and hang like monkeys To waTch and enioy Themselves. Among The Taces one will always remember is ThaT oT Tom Berry, The whisTler Trom Brooklyn, who made iT Trom The Bowery To The GreaT WhiTe Way in The company oT Baby Snooks Fanny Brice, and would you believe iT-WalTer Winchell. Yep, old Tom could sing, dance and whisTle all aT The same Time-and as an added aTTracTion he used To Tell iokes , . .The kind you would laugh aT. Then There was The Tormer wresTling and weighT-liTTing champ oT New Zealand, Obie Cleghorn, whose jolly Tace land bellyl and beauTiTul singing voice made The sailors scream wiTh delighT. As no good show is wiThouT iTs BlacksTone acT, our shows were never wiThouT Dee Schullian's acT, l-le made more Things disappear and reappear Than BlacksTone himselT. One Thing he didn'T have Though, was rabbiTs. The reason being, he was aTraid ThaT The ChieT Commissary STeward, Frank Collins, would make sTew ouT oT Them. ll-lmm, we could have used some sTew aT Timesl. g The largesT big-Time oT The FOOTF'S recreaTion momenTs was The Ship's ParTy held aT The Lakewood CounTry Club in Long Beach, CaliTornia. A grand parTy iT was -and howl The beer guzzlers couldn'T say They didn'T geT enough beer ThaT nighT. The crew was enTerTained by movie sTars and Then The crew enTerTained The movie sTars-and They aTe and drank and wined and dined and oT course They danced, also. Yep, iT was really hep To The iive in sea going Tempo ThaT nighT. They Talked abouT The parTy Tor weeks aTTerwards. Now aTTer reading This you mighT Think ThaT all The FOOTE sailors did was To have a good Time- Don'T geT us wrong. A good Time was had whenever There was an opporTuniTy-and The opporTuniTies were Tar and long aparT. One mighT Think ThaT The FOOTE sailors are a happy-go-lucky loT-Well, come To Think oT iT-They are. 57

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SHIPMATES STAFF EdiTor-in-ChieT ...A,.. ..,......, .......4.......4...A...,...,. .4...,.... I-l E N RY MALONE AssociaTe EdiTors .... ....... J Ol-IN BRENNAN 81 SALVATORE CAPALDO ArTisT ,A.A..........., ...,A4...,....,.......,......,..A..... E UC-EENE SCI-INAUBELT GLENN BLOOD, WILLIAM FOSS, ConTribuTing WriTers . 4....,,.. 4 SYLVAN MEYER, JOI-IN CONNELL, PuloliciTy 84 Treasury .,..,.. QFLOYD Sl-IELTON and JAMES DELANEY DEARLD SCI-IULLIAN The sTaTT wishes To Thank The Tollowing men who cooperaTed in making ShipmaTes 6 SUCCSSS. GarreTT l'lunTer OTTo Bock Enda Loughlin Gregory FerriTTo Thomas Fuller Glenn Carver RoberT Williams James MaTlock Ralph Bosh Louis Taigen William Bass John PeTTley Coy Brickle John Price David Cole Jack NasTell lrvin Evans Michael CasaTelli ThroughouT The making oT This book The ediTorial sTaTT was advised by LT. Sylvan Meyer Tor which we wholehearTedly exTend our Thanks. 59