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Midway Island is the happy home of 645,000 albatrosses-about 35% of the world population of the Laysan species and 16% of the black-footed species. Difficulty is, Midway is also the home of a major air facility of the U.S. Navy, and the place is not big enough for both bird and plane. Last week the U.S. Navy decided that the troublesome albatross must...
Divorced. Ex-Marine Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, 46, rambunctious Medal of Honor flying ace (28 Japanese planes), reformed tosspot and bestselling autobiographer (Baa Baa Black Sheep); by Frances Baker Boyington, 45; after 13 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...first passed off as just another fellow prisoner, into a garrulous, sentimental clown. As the axman prattles on about being not some "unfamiliar terrible somebody, but a tender friend," Author Nabokov develops the memorable conceit that the rite of execution is both a public festival and a black sacrament, in which victim and executioner are as intimately linked as bride and groom...
...Ireland. Many ships broke up in violent squalls or split open on rocks along the Irish coast, and the natives grimly knocked out some Spaniards' brains as the men lay exhausted on the beaches. Few lived, despite legend, says Mattingly, to seed the Celts with dark skins and black eyes. Weeks later Medina Sidonia brought the remaining two-thirds of his fighting strength home. It was an impressive achievement, but history has given him little praise...
William E. Schroeder, the designer, has used the freedom from literal representation given him by the author to create a set consisting only of black curtains, a door, a few steps in necessary places, and a large fire escape that provides the characters with a refuge from one another. It is a serviceable job, but the convention that the blacks aren't there is weakened by hanging a picture on them, and the impressive fire escape occasionally hides someone's face just when we want...