BRITISH COLUMBIA Joy Ride Raising the dust in barracks and powder rooms last week was a whispered warning: U.S. Coast Guard SPARS are unsafe on Canadian Navy tugs. Behind the warning was a somewhat Rabelaisian, Sunday-afternoon rowdedow in Vancouver Harbor.
For a week a Coast Guard troupe of 67 enlisted men & women played a four-a-day musical show called Tars and Spars in Vancouver's Beacon Theater. On Sunday the cast, including its bright particular star, Chief Boatswain's Mate Victor Mature,* lunched at the swank Capitano Country Club. Later a new, 85-ft. Canadian Navy tug stood by to take everybody for a...
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