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...book* by romantic, poetic, enthusiastic, sparkling, dauntless, bubbling, impetuous, adventurous, dramatic, enthralling, etc. Playboy Richard Halliburton begins with a "Crash! The lightning in a rage split the writhing firmament from Thessaly to the Cyclades in one blazing, blinding glare. Streaks of fire burst into the inky darkness, inflaming the abyss about me and lashing at the clouds that hurtled past...
...Jove, Author Halliburton explains, angrily tossing thunderbolts because a whimsical, gay, incorrigible, dramatic, inspired, etc. young Amercian is at the beetling, rugged, sacrosanct, fierce, rugged, granite pinnacle of Mt. Olympus and proposes to spend the night...
...chapter containing the least Halliburton relates a visit to Rupert Brooke's grave at Skyros. Of all the Playboy's heroes, Poet Brooke seems to be the most genuine. But Poet Byron comes a close second: "Lord Byron once wrote that he would rather have swum the Hellespont than written all his poetry. So would...
...hundreds of thousands of U. S. clubwomen already know, Playboy Halliburton did swim the Hellespont, to catch up with Byron and Leander. And the dourest male skepticism will be disarmed by our hero's frank confessions that he took a taxi over the last seven miles of his race from Marathon to Athens in the very tracks of Pheidippides; that diving for sponges in the Gulf of Gabes gave him an earache...
Byron would have envied Playboy Halliburton as indeed he did envy prodigious Edward John Trelawny, of whom Mr. Halliburton is a slim, blonde, unbearded re-edition. For the Trelawny love of violence-he slaughtered Malays, bashed Turks-is substituted, or at least talked a great deal about, a love of Romance-and of "good copy." Both have written with an (extravagance surpassing mere boastfulness and Playboy Halliburton, though constantly referring to himself as "such a nut" and "incorrigible" and "foolish," has the editorial wit to push a lot of his playfulness off on various traveling companions. Also, knowing his public...