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...movie star," covers familiar ground wtih unfamiliar dexterity; if we must have more jokes about Method acting, let us by all means have Mr. Feiffer's image of "The Inner Me Acting Academy." His ear for catch phrases and talent for parodying them are as precise and effective as ever; in the story entitled "Boom!" he reproduces a dialogue of two generals discussing their progress: "This is last year's bomb. We thought it was pretty ultimate, remember?" "Boy, were we naive...
...heavy-jawed Sir Ernest ("The Boss'') Shackleton, who in 1909 had gone to within 97 miles of the South Pole. Shackleton had one trouble: he was a towering egotist. As an apprentice in the British merchant navy, he was termed "the most pigheaded, obstinate boy I have ever come across" by his first skipper. Born a middle-class Irishman, he burned to force his way to the top of Britain's upper crust-and chose the polar route for the expedition...
...Prayer of Rescue. Yet Shackleton would not be dissuaded, and Alfred Lansing has crisply re-created one of the most audacious assaults that Antarctica ever defeated. Shackleton sailed from Buenos Aires in October 1914, with 69 dogs, no radio transmitter, and a motley crew of 27 volunteers. He put his faith in Endurance, a barkentine (144 ft. long, 25 ft. wide) with a reinforced hull and 350-h.p. auxiliary steam engine. Three months later Endurance was in the Weddell Sea, a vast, bowl-shaped scoop in the Atlantic coast of Antarctica, and there the ice packs began kneading...
...swells. Shackleton ordered his crazed, frostbitten men into the boats, and after a week somehow managed to make a landfall-the first in 497 days-on tiny, tide-swept Elephant Island. Then with five men, he set off on one of the most remarkable small-boat voyages ever recorded. In 14 days he sailed a 22-ft. boat 800 miles through incessant gales and 90-ft. high waves to the west coast of South Georgia. Impossible? But there was the next leg of the journey: scrambling 29 miles across the island's glaciers to reach an east-coast whaling...
...toss, and shot putter Hank Abbot broke another record with his 50 ft., 3 in. heave. Stan Doten came through with an excellent 151 ft., 9 1/4 in. throw to take second in the discus, and Steve Cohen put the shot 48 ft., 6 in., his best ever, to beat out Princeton's Bill Fisher for second place...