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between the swabbies (good guys) and the brass (bad guys). Watts flipped through his book “USS Massachusetts. April 1942August 1945.” There, flanked by a shot of his printing buddy, was a photograph of "Mighty Mamie’s” barbershop with a much younger Watts flourishing scissors and comb.

Fifty years have added a few wrinkles but they’ve failed to squelch the enthusiasm he feels for his work. To borrow a few lines from a hit Broadway musical, "long as they keep growing that hair.” Marion Watts will continue on his second half century behind the red and white pole.

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