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Breaststroker Marc Schlatter and butterflyer Jim Halliburton headline the crew of swimmers which placed in all three relays at the championships and whose members spotted the 1979 world best times list. Halliburton's long course 100-meter fly performance (55.00) ranked him fifth on that chart...
...boys have a hero. He is Richard Halliburton, who sent a message from a Chinese junk while crossing the China Sea: "Having a wonderful time, wish you were here instead of me." The emphasis is on escape: escape from parents, school, war, self, and finally, madness. Al learns that he cannot muscle his way through to escape. He must follow Birdy in struggling to wing his way to freedom. Imagination takes them a long way. As Al puts it, Birdy makes up the lying part and I back him with the details to make it seem real. What a team...
...part personal scrapbook-500 pictures (130 in color), 100,000 words of text-is both a pictorial record of Duncan's work and an autobiography. It shows most strikingly that Duncan the word chronicler is not as interesting as Duncan the photographer, if only because he exposes, like Halliburton, much more of his emotions and his self-concern than the reader cares to know. Characteristically, he dedicates the book to both his ex-wife and his present wife, then goes on to present dozens of documents, letters and telegrams that he collected or sent through the years. He even...
...ranger who went East "to see how people managed to live without the excitement of an occasional Indian fight, or a scrimmage with the Mexicans, or even a tussle with a bear now and then to keep their blood in circulation." Adventure was that incorrigible traveler and taleteller, Richard Halliburton, whether swimming the Hellespont or crossing the Alps à la Hannibal on an elephant...
...JEAN HALLIBURTON Greenville...