Mrs. Henry Howard, socialite matron of Newport, R. I., and a good sailor, was happy last week in the knowledge that many an American sailor would be thumbing a pocket-sized blue book compiled under her direction, would be a wiser-sailor for having done so. The book is the sixth edition of The Seamen's Handbook for Shore Leave, distributed free to men in the American Merchant Marine and costing 50ยข to other interested parties. It lists 440 world ports with brief facts about their cheaper hotels, venereal clinics, dentists, laundries, amusements, and a...
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