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Song of the Grasshopper was a fable that pitted the steady workers of this world against a charming drone. Naturally the drone wins. Alfred Drake played the role in his customary vagabond troubadour style, sans songs. Grasshopper was adapted from the Spanish, and the original play may just possibly have possessed something more dramatic than tedium recollected in tranquillity...
...boats sounded a salute, and dock cranes dipped in tribute as Sir Francis Chichester, waylaid the past month by a duodenal ulcer, at last sailed Gipsy Moth IV up the Thames to the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, where he was formally knighted by Queen Elizabeth with Sir Francis Drake's sword. Later, the solo circumnavigator rode a white Rolls-Royce convertible through London's financial district to the cheers of 250,000 fellow Britons. "You personify the spirit of initiative, adventure and determination," London's Lord Mayor told Chichester at the official city reception...
...Circumnavigator Sir Francis Chichester, 65, was hurried to Plymouth's Royal Naval Hospital with a hemorrhage of an unsuspected duodenal ulcer. With Sir Francis berthed for as long as a month, this week's two superceremonies-his formal knighting by the Queen with Sir Francis Drake's sword, and his pandemonious reception by the City of London-have been postponed until he is shipshape again...
...sketchy, jerry-built anthology of sea tales by others who sailed at least some portion of the great clipper way followed by Skipper Chichester on his 226-day voyage. Since the book contains extracts from the best known yarns of such seafaring types as Sir Francis Drake, Joseph Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, stitched together with Old Sailor Chichester's own brief commentary on such dangers as icebergs, scurvy, sea monsters and gales, it is predictably absorbing. Still, it is obviously only a warmup for what Chichester undoubtedly plans as a rousing encore: an account of his own epic...
...appreciated by the connoisseurs." The admirers include Queen Elizabeth II, who will formally confer knighthood on Sir Francis next week in an unusual out-of-palace ceremony at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. She will use the same sword presented by Elizabeth I to Sir Francis Drake after he brought home a plundered treasure from the Spanish Main nearly four centuries ago. Chichester's Gipsy Moth IV did not bring back such a glistening cargo; a more modern type of loot awaited her intrepid skipper on shore...