Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week India resigned as the party's women's director. She wrote a "Dear Steve" letter of resignation to Democratic " National Chairman Stephen Mitchell, who expressed the proper regrets in a "Dear India" reply. The cordiality shown in their exchange was only letter-deep. Old Pro India had always considered Political Amateur Mitchell naive and impractical. When Mitchell set out to "integrate" the women's division into the general national committee organization, India was sure that he was trying to get rid of her. At first, she thought she could outlast him. But Amateur Mitchell turned...
Personality & Point of View: A quiet, practical, genial Irish Catholic with deep-set blue eyes, a massive, laugh-crinkled face, huge shoulders and bristling hair. A Republican, he has never been active in politics. An expert in getting opposing forces together, he is considered shrewd by management and fair by labor. Bloomingdale employees honored him by waiving a no-executive rule to permit him to join their deep-sea fishing club. Never a labor-union member, he has never stated his views on the Taft-Hartley law in public. He once told an employer organization: "Unions can become our partners...
Offensively, Lowell did poorly except for that one deep penetration. But the defense, bulwarked by tackle Sam Shaw, held the Bellboys well, the only lapse being on Hall...
...full-rigged, deep-sea sailing-ship is gone, perhaps forever, and the man who mourns her most eloquently is Australia-born Alan Villiers. Anyone familiar with his earlier books (The Set of the Sails, Cruise of the Conrad) might suppose that Sailor-Author Villiers had unloaded his full cargo of grief and nostalgia, but not so. The Way of a Ship makes it clear that, after his seven trips around the Horn, sails will be flapping in his memory for life. A bit long on statistics, the book is nevertheless a fine armchair way of getting down...
What Villiers mourns is the passing of sailing as a great art, of sailing-ships as things of beauty, of deep-water sail as a moulder of character. "There was no other career comparable with it," says he, 'nor is there likely to be again...