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Writing feverishly, in crisp words, Richard Boyer rises above the tweedy objectivity of New Yorker profiles to tell the searing story of American seamen and the union they have built. The seamen are workers at sea, not comic opera swashbucklers, and the union they have put together is the N.M.U., certainly no joke. It is a story of men who are reweaving the country's social fabric, men who think about democracy a good part of the time and who act on their thought. The book is called "The Dark Ship," because that is the kind of title that sells...
...their first-flush-of-fame best sparring with Baker and more delightfully with Bobby Clark. Even the W. C. Fields routine with McCarthy pales next to Clark's classic buffoonery. Each wheeze is on hand--"you fugitive from a picket fence," "you animated clothespin," "you talking totem pole"--but crisp as toast before that long-term contract with Chase and Sanborn...
...recognition. . . . [And] to single out Gilmore for a prize in the same year in which Atkinson's work is honored is illogical, for Gilmore's correspondence has been as unrevealing as Atkinson's was revealing-as sugary and soft as Atkinson's was tart and crisp...
...movie has its moments-a night stampede along a cliff, several brutal fights and killings, and a long, tense stalking sequence, with rifles, in a pitch-dark canyon. It also has more than its quota of good performances, notably by Wally Cassell, Donald Crisp, Don DeFore, Lloyd Bridges. Best of all, it is finely set and photographed (by Allan O'Dea and Russell Harlan) and carefully directed (by Miss Lake's husband, Andre de Toth...
...Quartet in E Flat Major for piano and strings (George Szell, piano, with members of the Budapest String Quartet; Columbia, 6 sides). Although not one of his great quartets, this delightful, sparkling slice of Mozart is almost a miniature piano concerto. The Cleveland Orchestra's conductor gives a crisp but playful assist at the piano. Performance: excellent...