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HEAD TIDE?Joseph C. Lincoln? Appleton ($2.50). Cape Cod...
With him as crew aboard the Myth II, Nominee Roosevelt took three of his four toothy sons, James. Franklin Jr. and John; Robert Delano, a nephew; and George Briggs, Boston friend. Trailing the Myth II around Cape Cod went the Ambassadress, a yacht full of political friends. Close behind the Ambassadress came the Mar con, a cabin cruiser used in the Lindbergh baby search, loaded to the gunwales with newshawks and cameramen...
Early the fifth morning the Ambassadress towed the Myth II through the Cape Cod Canal. Little groups of citizens lined the banks, waved & cheered. Coast Guardsmen delivered five telegrams to the yawl. Vessels in Massachusetts Bay tooted salutes. . . . Sunset found the Myth II almost becalmed off Boston as the Marcon pulled alongside for a megaphone interview...
...wavelike rhythm underruns the lives of the Lunns, father and two sons. From troughs of idleness or unprofitable fishing caused by storms or glutted markets, they rise suddenly to crests of thrilling sea treasure-hunts with cod lines, lobster pots, salmon nets. The transition from crest to crest is marked by dull periods when the men's blood runs slow with the tedium of making a living. Then a glimpse of what the Fosdycks are out after, or a chance lobster hooked on a cod line starts the blood boiling up. It boils up first in devil-may-care Marney...
...three such fevers run their course is the book's story. Good luck with cod, phenomenal success with lobster potting, lead them to quixotic ventures with a salmon net that almost cost their lives. How the two brothers are benighted at sea, in mist and storm, how their broken gaff is found on the beach, their bodies hunted in vain until their coble, laden with salmon, breaks through the morning fog between the scaurs, is, with all the rest of their adventures, told with a simplicity and salt that has not lost its savor for having been used in older...