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...century. The ships are three- and four-masted craft, fighting the. losing battle of sail against steam as they race with their cargoes of grain and nitrates out of Australia, Chile and San Francisco, round Cape Horn to their French home ports. From these ports come the homeless, hard-bitten men who man them-a surly lot, mostly shanghaied aboard by brothel-keepers to whom the poor fellows have lost every franc. As vicious as any man caught in this vicious cycle is Common Seaman Rolland, who is lugged aboard the good ship Galatéee, bloody-faced and fighting...
...Charles Eliot Perkins scholarship. He had found the Boston museums, particularly Mrs. Jack Gardiner's, fascinating, and had been more interested in "running around Boston than in student activities. "Then, too," Pusey recalls, "I didn't take much part in College life because I was pretty hard bitten with Harvard indifference." He lived in Gore Hall, then a freshman dormitory, and gathered a group of five good friends, all of whom stuck together throughout college. He gave up his one venture into athletics, freshman basketball, to devote all his time to study. His singleness of purpose gained for Pusey membership...
...French army in Indo-China is a hard-bitten professional outfit, commanded by first-rate career officers. It has superior equipment. Why then have the Viet minh Communists overrun most of northern Indo-China? Last week General Raoul Salan, capable commander of French Union forces in Indo-China, near the end of his tour of duty, gave an interview explaining how the French operate...
...Jungle Grail. Fawcett rarely fell sick, never caught a serious disease. He had a close brush with a jaguar, but never, so far as he records, was bitten by a snake. Though often shot at, Fawcett was never hit by the 6-ft. poisoned arrows of the forest people; and once, when he and his mule fell off a log bridge into a rushing stream, he escaped, almost miraculously, without a scratch...
Only the hard-bitten earth, the taste of bread and cheese, and boyhood's memories seem to have kept their force for the wanderer. Author Pavese writes of each of these with simple eloquence: "How often I'd seen the noisy carts go by, with women and boys lined up on them, going to the feast, to the fair, going to the merry-go-rounds . . . while I stayed...