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Author Street's historical romances had everything that such books need: swaggering heroes, beautiful women, villainous (and noble) redskins, shocking rapes and seductions and massacres, as well as action everywhere and all the time. If readers tired of the floggings, the snakes, the brains splattered on the deck, the hussies driving strong men to distraction, they were compensated by vivid scenes, like the passage of the ironclad Arkansas through the Union fleet at Vicksburg...
...tanker Sinco spent three wild days keeping their vessel afloat after sea water accidentally flooded her hull and stopped her engines off the stormy Carolina capes. A tug finally towed the foundering vessel safely into Charleston, S.C., where the crew knelt thankfully on her deck-and shot craps until the cook got a hot meal together...
...captain gave in. Gerhart was arrested, and led quietly out on deck. But then he saw an amazing spectacle: 100 newsmen were circling the ship in rented craft, cameras and notebooks poised. Gerhart Eisler threw himself on the deck and yelled as though he were having lighted cigarettes pushed into his eyes. The plainclothesmen picked him up by arms & legs and lugged him down the gangway, while cameras clicked...
...game uses a double deck with four jokers-108 cards. The jokers and all deuces are wild. Red treys are bonus cards, worth 100 extra points. Black treys, by contrast, are purely defensive cards, and can be melded only when the player goes out at the end of a game. In the scoring, a canasta (literally, basket) is a seven-card meld, and if a player makes it the hard way (using no wild cards), the bonus is 500 points. Scoring can run into the thousands in a single hand; 5,000 points is game. In most forms of rummy...
...which Harvard faces Saturday, May 28 on Lake Cayuga, gave Princeton quite a battle for third place and lost by just a deck length. Yale, the defending sprint champion, was never in the contention after the first half mile...