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...hurricane batters the Cyclone's, superstructure to pieces. When they reach the Greek steamer after twelve hours, its hysterical crew refuse to come on deck to take the towing hawser. Finally coaxed out the next morning they bungle the job and the hawser, worth 50,000 francs, breaks within an hour. When a second hawser breaks, the Greek crew beg frantically to be taken off. Captain Renaud refuses, and the Greek ship sends out wild messages that the Cyclone has sunk. The Cyclone's, smashed radio transmitter prevents cursing Captain Renaud denying the charge, and while the furious...
Within sight of the harbor the hawser suddenly snaps again, this time cut deliberately by the Greek captain to avoid paying salvage costs...
Life on the Narcissus is complicated principally by Terry's appetite for whiskey. He cuts off pieces of the hawser and pawns them for liquor so that when Annie sets out to tow a schooner into port she is humiliated by finding that she has no rope. Young Alec, disgusted by his father's dipsomania, goes to work for a steamship company, manages to satisfy his mother's ambition by becoming captain of the company's sleekest passenger ship, the Glacier Queen. The day Alec completes his first voyage, Terry gets drunk on hair-tonic. Annie...
Artist Pach has a slanting Slavic forehead, a fiery eye, a mustache like an unravelled hawser. A native New Yorker, he studied painting under Leigh Hunt, William Merritt Chase and the late great Robert Henri. He has exhibited frequently with the Independents in Paris and New York. Not so well known is the fact that he is one of the Pachs of Pach Bros., commercial photographers, a business now carried on by Brother Alfred. Persuasive Elie Faure, French critic, is Walter Pach's best friend. In 1930 he finished a translation of Faure's vast and authoritative History...
...Fortnight ago before bald James Monroe Hewlett sailed to take up his duties as Director of the American Academy in Rome he announced that teaching students to copy classic remains was "not the Academy's idea at all" (TIME, Sept. 26). This statement was hailed with gusto by hawser-lipped Walter Pach. He announced that that was just what he was going to do at the Art Students' League, hold a course in Tradition which will teach art students how to look at Old Masters, insulating them at the same time from imitation...