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...Franklin yawing and staggering in her agony. Men went to work to correct her 13° list. Hydraulic controls for counter-flooding were out, but Downes and his men put on rescue breathers and groped their way below to the hand valves. Gradually Big Ben regained an even keel...
...Hornblower series has made him one of the most popular adventure writers alive, ("I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," said Ernest Hemingway.) Readers of Commodore Hornblower will find it built on the same lines as its predecessors: its topmast in a cloud of fantastic thrills, its keel afloat in Royal Navy lore...
PATRICK HENRY AND THE FRIGATE'S KEEL-Howard Fast-Duell, Sloane & Pearce ($2.50). Twelve stories of frontier life and Revolutionary incident told by the author of The Unvanquished and Citizen Tom Paine with convincing authenticity...
...work of Businessmen Beardsley Ruml and Hans Christian Sonne. Their key proposal: tax revenues that would balance the budget only at "high" employment, defined as 55 million people working 40 hours weekly. Their greatest concession to the "spending" theory: public works to keep the construction industry on an even keel. But, although they made a sound banking system, a sound dollar and free enterprise their prime goals and regarded high employment only as something to be "promoted," they gingerly crossed the Great Economic Divide when they wrote: "We . . . accept . . . federal cooperation ... to maintain adequate effective' demand...
...Merola. The man who more than anyone has kept the San Francisco Opera on an even artistic and financial keel is Gaetano Merola, a 63-year-old Neapolitan with a vegetable-wagon accent. Merola arrived in San Francisco in 1921 as one of the batoneers of the barnstorming San Carlo Opera. He promptly lost his shirt and lightened several other people's pock ets producing an outdoor opera season at the Stanford University Stadium...