Word: craning
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Readers of Cartoonist Roy Crane's comic strip "Buz Sawyer" were introduced back in 1966 to an outfit called the U.S. Navy Seals (for Sea, Air and Land), an elite bunch of commandos with which Buz performed deeds of derring-do in Viet Nam. It may have seemed like rousing fantasy to readers, but the fact was that just such an outfit was operating in Viet Nam-where its presence was one of the most closely kept secrets of the war.* Only now, in fact, when the Communists themselves have learned of the Seals' presence the hard...
Treatments & Trips. This year's most noticeable category in nonfiction is the literary biography, notably Andrew Turnbull's Thomas Wolfe and Carlos Baker's Ernest Hemingway (Papa is also the subject of Irwin Blacker's novel, Standing on a Drum). Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, Lytton Strachey, Richard Wright, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nathanael West, André Gide and Samuel Taylor Coleridge also get full-length treatment; and there will be an autobiography from André Malraux, a second volume of Bertrand Russell memories, and a third of Harold Nicolson diaries...
...climax of the evening came in speeches by DeGuglielmo supporter Daniel J. Hayes Jr. and by Edward A. Crane '35, who filed the motion to replace DeGuglielmo...
...Crane--whom Hayes later identified as the target of his remarks--replied that they indicated "a severe case of cephalic elephantiasis; you can list it under envious idiocy...
...next speaker was Crane. "Don't turn a 16-inch gun on a canoe and don't get in the gutter because you know what happens," he said. "Suffice it to say that I am not a back room boss...if anyone wants to knock me out of the Cambridge public life they can do it every two years...