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Apparently, the greater a star's candle power, the dimmer the biographer need be. As proof, see Donald Zee's Sophia (McKay; $8.95). By now, Sophia Loren's ascent from the rubble of Naples to the gold of Carlo Ponti should be as familiar as the tale...
Captain Raib Avers and eight ragged black and mulatto crewmen set out from Grand Cayman Island to hunt turtles in the southwest Caribbean. Their ship is the Lillias Eden, a once proud schooner now yoked to brand-new twin diesel engines in its converted cargo hold. Avers' legendary temper...
Literary sea voyages often carry a heavy ballast of allegory. The potential, after all, is readymade; it requires no great leap of imagination to see a ship as a tiny world adrift in eternity. Far Tortuga shuns such metaphysics in favor of hard surfaces. Avers is no Captain Ahab, nor...
Despite the indictments, Yorty, 58, staunchly defended his commissioners; claimed the Times is "out to get me." Why? According to the maverick Democratic mayor, the newspaper launched a vendetta because Yorty is an unannounced Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate this year, opposing Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel. And Kuchel, avers...
"With all the hell I get," avers Lieut. General Lewis Blaine Hershey, "I have less power than most anybody else." A lot of draft-age Americans would be happier if that were so. In fact, the crusty Selective Service director in recent weeks has fought the U.S. Justice Department, the...