When your name is Ernie Gantt and you're from some dough-pop town in eastern Texas where there isn't much at all to do and nothing going on, you grow up yearning for a world of adventures in exotic locales. When you're old enough to leave home, the best way to realize those dreams in 1926 is to become a merchant seaman and sail off to those realms of e…
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