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...GREAT MUTINY by James Dugan. 511 pages. Putnam...
...James Dugan's fine, wry, if somewhat overlong story re-creates the greatest mass mutiny in maritime history. It began in the Channel fleet stoppering Brest, spread like an infection through the anchorages at Spithead and the Nore, up to the North Sea and down 6,000 miles to ships lying off the Cape of Good Hope. Before it sputtered out, the mutineers numbered 50,000, controlled more than 100 vessels, blockaded London, and laid their country naked to her foes. Dugan's scrupulously unemotional narrative does not conceal his conviction that the mutinous seamen were right...
Twenty residents of the nation's intellectual community promptly rushed forth in public support of Lowell. Among them were Novelists Mary McCarthy, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud; Critics Alfred Kazin and Dwight Macdonald; Poets John Berryman, W. D. Snodgrass and Alan Dugan. None of them had been invited to the White House, but that didn't make any difference...
...selling the homespun aphorisms of Will Rogers to 700 U.S. dailies, went on to establish such other favorites as Dale Carnegie and Joe Palooka; of cancer; in Southbridge, Mass. Still going strong in 1,000 newspapers under McAdam, 72, the syndicate now features, besides tireless Joe, the Flintstones, Dixie Dugan, Mickey Finn, and Abigail ("Dear Abby") Van Buren...
PATRICK R. DUGAN Microbiological and Biochemical Center Syracuse University Research Corp. Syracuse...