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...touch is off. Chick Larkin, a plastics engineer from Buffalo, and Cory Cramer, a New Haven prep school history teacher, are not only fine navigators but can also turn a neat trick at the wheel. Dick Bertram, a Miami yacht broker, and Bobby Symonette, operator of a yacht basin in the Bahamas, are famed as helmsmen but are also skilled sail handlers. Mel Gutman, the boat's only hired hand, can tackle any job from cockpit to foredeck...
...said no, and his princess had even declared that she wanted her son to attend a kindergarten with "ordinary children." It was enough to make a conscientious imperial chamberlain wince. Protested one last week: "It is untrue that we resist change. Why, this prince was bathed in a duralumin basin that will be used again! At all previous imperial births, a tub made specially from fresh cypress wood was used, and it was afterwards buried deeply and secretly in the imperial compound...
McCoy springs few surprises. A trim, energetic man at 56, he leads his seven-man band through Hot Lips, Basin Street Stomp, and other items of Dixieland "sugar stuff." The arrangements are as predictable as a TV script, and the sound is unexceptional. With his horn in his right hand and his left hand flashing an outsized diamond as he carves out the rhythms, McCoy demonstrates that he can still make a trumpet caterwaul, growl, wail, or punch out notes of brassy clarity...
...becoming a dollar scion. He flitted from school to school-Wyoming Seminary (Methodist) in Kingston, Pa., the University of Maryland, Georgetown University-played topflight tennis and some football, and did little else. He sold Crackerjack at Griffith Stadium, spent many a summer as a lifeguard in the Tidal Basin Pond near the Washington Monument...
...makes amends in Royal Jelly, where the plot is nobly saved by an ingenious double ending. Some of the others earn high marks: William and Mary features a neat and neatly solved contest between a wife and her dead husband's brain, which lives on in a basin; Georgy Porgy shows how a man can literally lose himself in a woman...