Word: dooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lipped David Paulding (Richard Greene) is a clean, upstanding, well-dressed boy with a veddy, veddy English accent and a brace of dimples he can switch on and off like headlights. His limpid life is complicated by a two-father complex. Father No. 1 (and sire) is Duke (pronounced Dook) Allen (Richard Dix), Stafford 1917, football, track, a brilliant writer who 20 years later is still winding up Chapter Four of his first novel. Father No. 2 is a famous lawyer (George Zucco) who married David's mother (Gladys George) after she left Duke for nonpayment of rent...
Navigating was "The Dook," wiry, chaste, non-practicing bridge engineer, whose sober tinkering with the sextant gave their position anywhere from mid-ocean to mid-Australia. Real navigator, says Author Flynn, was Providence. They all took turns at the hand pump, which had to be kept going most of the time. Figuring a couple of months for the trip, they took seven, with many a layover for repairs and beachcombing. Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner...
...they let it run with the gale. After three days of it, more dead than alive, they reached New Guinea, found a native pilot and set out for Port Moresby. Two days away, in a sudden cyclone, the Sirocco was smashed to splinters on a reef, "kindly, lovable old Dook" drowned...