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...Buccaneer's Girl. Universal was preparing three more: Double Crossbones, Against All Flags, Admiral of the Black. Columbia planned another two: Last of the Buccaneers and a 15 episode serial called Pirates of the High Seas. 20th Century-Fox would film Anne of the Indies, and RKO Blackbeard the Pirate...
From the island-dotted, almost landlocked Gulf of Paria, separating Trinidad from the coast of northeastern Venezuela, Pirate Edward Teach, the infamous Blackbeard, once sallied forth to ravage American ports as far north as Virginia. In the 232 years since Blackbeard's death, the gulf has been a highway for smuggling between Trinidad and the South American mainland. But for a time this month smugglers and even honest fishermen feared to venture to sea. Word had run along the waterfront that once again pirates were operating in the Gulf of Paria...
...leader of the gang to which Peyson belonged, the rumor went, was burly, 180-lb. Boysie Singh, alias Julie Mama. Like Blackbeard, who braided ribbons into his beard and went into action with smoldering fuses behind his ears, Singh knows the value of a proper appearance. During the war, when he owned a string of nightclubs, he wore a ten-gallon hat, a sharply draped zoot suit, and numerous rings. More recently he has assumed the role of owner of a modest fishing fleet and prefers a fisherman's sweater and khaki trousers...
...tycoons flocked to Nassau too last week, for the huge terra cotta New Colonial Hotel ($16 to $44 per day) was opening its winter season. On the site of the elegant New Colonial once stood old Fort Nassau where the pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, used to water his ships, count his loot. A wily ruffian, he wore his luxurious whiskers in fine points, braided them with gay ribbons in peace, with smouldering slow matches in war. Bootleggers load their ships at Nassau today. Not far from the New Colonial Hotel is the Bahamian Club, a discreet drinking...
...disheartening to learn that Captain Kidd was only an inept revenue agent, but these histories have their compensations. Henry Morgan of Jamaica comes up to scratch as the bellicose gentleman adventurer. No brigand could be more fearsome than Blackbeard Teach, who festooned his ears with braids from his chin and decked his hat with blazing brimstone. Also, there are the two extraordinary prototypes of the bobbed-hair bandit, Pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who successfully combined marauding and maternity. Author Hurd selects a dozen of the sea-rogues, letting a good tale justify its telling. Author Seitz collects...