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...SHORT STORIES OF CONRAD AIKEN (416 pp.)-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...time he was 25, Ford was helping struggling Polish Immigrant Joseph Conrad to proper use of the English language. He wrote with him a novel named Romance-and thereafter paid the penalty of being introduced to strangers as "the man who collaborated with Conrad." As editor of the English Review, Ford was the first to print poems and stories by the young D. H. Lawrence-and in return for the favor was roundly abused by that ungrateful genius. Later, Expatriates Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passes made their early marks in Ford's transatlantic review...
Southeast Asia is old Joseph Conrad country. There are still a few stories to be picked up out that way, and young (29) Novelist David Loughlin is just the man to try. His hero, DeCarlo, ship's electrician of the Nicaragua Victory, shows how much, and how little, times have changed...
DeCarlo was the kind of sailor who would have given Conrad a Bronx cheer; that is, if DeCarlo had read books. He had sailed a lot, but had really "never traveled." He had "America lashed onto him like a rucksack and he spread it out in the handiest spot." He had smuggled 1,700 cartons of Pall Mall cigarettes aboard ship, and he was going to spread them out on the Bangkok black market. His modest objective: enough cash to start a used-car business back in the States and quit the sea for good...