A Sailor-Made Man

Harold, a young man worth $20 million, is part of the idle class, and completely specializes in being idle. In his idleness, he has a sense of entitlement and feels entitled to marry a young woman within his social circle who receives several marriage proposals every day. Her businessman father refuses to allow the marriage because of Harold's idleness demonstrating his laziness. So Harold decides not so much to apply but rather just insinuate himself into a job posted on a sidewalk sandwich board: to join the Navy. When he changes his mind to do something more fun--to join his girl, her father and her friends on a sailing trip around the world--he learns it's too late to back out of his three-year Navy enlistment. Despite a rocky start, Harold is able to earn the friendship and respect of the other sailors, even O'Rafferty, the roughest, toughest sailor on his ship, although Harold doesn't get close to achieving an officer's rank as he dreams. But his actions in the Kingdom of Khairpura-Bhandanna, where he has a shore leave, may show his girl and her father, the Kingdom where they are coincidentally docked at the same time, that he truly is worthy of her hand.