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Battleships are majestic, destroyers are dashing, submarines are sinister -but LSTs (landing ship, tank) are slow, clumsy, ugly, and somehow faintly comic. Lieut. Jake Adler, who commands LST 1826 as it bobs between Naples and Anzio during World War II, is an easygoing skipper who runs an exceedingly loose and happy ship. All the 99 officers and men aboard could have stepped right out of an old MGM movie. In fact, after a while, the reader begins to wish that a Mr. Roberts would appear to toss the captain's palm tree overboard, or that Skipper Adler would start...
...Sachs, 28, wife of a truck driver and mother of three, was near death as the result of a self-induced abortion. She pleaded with Nurse Sanger and the doctor: "Another baby will finish me. What can I do to prevent it?" The doctor's gruff reply: "Tell Jake to sleep on the roof." Three months later, Sadie Sachs was dead-of another self-induced abortion. Margaret Sanger had a cause...
...something that you feel within yourself and you gotta give to the people," explains Singer-Guitarist Magic Sam. "It's hardship, what you've been through. I love it even though it makes me sad, because that's what I am." Adds retired Harmonica Player Shaky Jake: "Blues are the true story, the truest music I ever heard in my life...
Pacifist Protest. Virtually ignoring the torrent of expensive wedding gifts, White House handouts played up the sentimental, homey and offbeat: from Uncle Tony Taylor in Texas, a set of six silver syllabub cups that had belonged to Grandmother Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor; Texas-shaped cookie cutters from Mrs. Jake Pickle, wife of the Congressman who holds L.B.J.'s old seat; from Mrs. Orville Freeman, a jeweled Pakistani nose ring, symbolizing female submission to her mate (who, vows the bride, will never become "Mister Luci Johnson"). The bipartisan House leadership took up a collection for a congressional gift, but Iowa...
...centerfield. Daughter Joy Javits, 17, who was a ringer (she's on Senator Claiborne Pell's staff), then brought her balding pa pounding home with a triple. Thus inspired, "The Old Men" eked out a 28-17 win. Two-four-six-ache, who do we appreciate? Jake, Jake, Jake. Yeah...