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...collier, the Jupiter, was renamed the Langley and refitted as the world's first aircraft carrier. Among the first three pilots to touch down on the Langley's flight deck was Mel Pride. Besides Pride, the young seagoing airmen of that time included Arthur Radford, Forrest Sherman, John Dale Price and "Jocko" Clark. They were to participate in the carrier revolution of the 1930s and become famed as the "flying admirals...
Pride worked, as always, calmly. One day an overexcited deck officer gave a command: "Full speed ahead!"-instead of "All engines ahead full." Pride did not bawl out the officer for using unnautical, storybook language. The admiral made his point by adopting the same tone. "Yes, and damn the torpedoes!" he cried melodramatically...
...gold and Denise Darcel. The gold, which the Mexican Emperor Maximillian is sending to Paris, has various attractions. It could help the patriotic Mexican rebels overthrow foreign dictatorship, it could help Cooper rebuild his southern plantation which was ruined in the Civil War, it could help Miss Darcel deck herself out in greater finery, and it could help Lancaster to be a bigger and better stinker. With so many unscrupulous scoundrels around, there is some difficulty finding anyone who really deserves the money...
...typical Vorkuta camp, built around a mine pit, consists of some 30 long, low, Quonset-like barracks made of vertical boards and roofed with hand-reeved board shingles. The cracks are chinked with mud and cinders, and two coal-fed brick stoves supply heat. Rows of double-deck bunks run the length of the building, but frequently prisoners have to sleep on the floor. Buckets provide sanitation...
...GOLDEN PRINCESS, by Alexander Baron (378 pp.; Ives Washburn; $3.95), is a novel of high adventure telling how Hernando Cortés conquered Mexico with the aid of his Indian mistress. Skeptics to the contrary, English Author Baron is dealing no joker from the historical deck; it really happened that way. Malinali, or Marina, as the Spaniards christened her, emerges as a tawny tidbit just turned 18 and just about Cortés' first Mexican conquest. Intelligent and fearless, she soon comes to share his council as well as his bed. On the long, fierce road to the golden...