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During one twelve-hour siege the giant Enterprise had been driven back 41 miles. Steel gun shields were crushed. Catwalks were swept away as waves thundered over the flightdeck 50 feet above the water line. Water pouring through her open fo'c'sle deck split the seams of a 60-foot strip of steel bulkhead and flooded officers' quarters forward...
...FO'CASTLE WALTZ-Louis Slobodkin-Vanguard...
...doldrum days between World Wars I & II, Louis Slobodkin, then a broth of a boy, now a ranking U.S. sculptor, decided to ship as a deckhand on the tramp freighter S.S. Hermanita, plying between the Port of New York and Latin America. Fo'castle Waltz is his 352-page total recall of this nautical episode...
...highlights of Fo'castle Waltz (some of them are quite high) are the crew's dingy benders and revels among the bordellos of an Argentine port, the perilous voyage back to the U.S. (which the rickety S.S. Hermanita made in ballast with the pumps choked and the lifeboats rusted to the davits), and Author Slobodkin's one-man mutiny when he was fed up with cleaning sewage from the bilges...
...book is much more than a catalogue of sights & sounds, or a stylistic appreciation of scenery. There are also a dirgelike visit to Changsha battle field; illuminating talks with Dr. Sun Fo, "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, WPBoss Wong Wen-hao; ferryboat rides across the dragonlike Yangtze; discourses on the world and its state; days with abbots, poets, children and cymbal-beating actors. Above all, Payne admires and respects China's students and professors, the guardians of the past and the planners of the future, whose great hegira from the coast to the interior never fails to fill...