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Masefield's pungent realism burst upon English poetry, but his worship of the sea was traditional for a maritime nation and his charming pastorals were long echoes of a yeoman past. His most famous short poem, Sea-Fever, was published with his first collection in 1902 and froze the seaman's world for ever in rolling, hypnotic meter...
...grew up in the Rhineland, with a Rhenish and Roman Catholic German's lifelong distaste for Berliners and Prussians. His weak lungs also kept him out of World War I; by 1917, he was Lord Mayor of Cologne, his birthplace. That year plastic surgery following an auto accident froze his facial features into the cat's mask the world was later to know so well...
...meant having a technician follow them around in offduty hours. Dr. Bourne wanted these round-the-clock specimens because the chemicals in them would reveal what levels the stress hormones had reached each day. Despite some unavoidable misses, he got 76 day-and-night samples from the group. He froze part of each and sent the specimens by air to Washington for analysis...
Harvard's crews are back on the water again after a first try ended when the Charles River froze over last Thursday...
...country's last six Presidents. Last week, for a change, Argentina's polo-playing Strongman Juan Carlos Onganía suddenly made things hot for the confederation. In rapid succession, he temporarily dissolved the country's six largest labor unions, representing more than 625,000 workers, froze the bank accounts of 100 union leaders, and enacted a new law empowering the government to draft any male or female over 14 years into a "civilian defense corps." The law thus puts every union troublemaker within quick, easy reach...