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Citizens' Navy. At Newport, R.I., after a Navy Relief Society benefit "election" on the destroyer Hale, Gunner's Mate Arnold E. Bukovsky, the titlewinner, consoled his commanding officer after the latter ran fourth as "Grouchiest Man Aboard Ship...
...snatch the ball-point-pen leadership from Frawley Chemical & Engineering's Paper-Mate, Atlanta's Scripto, Inc. is bringing out a new, lighter and better-balanced model for $1. Though competition is still fierce, ball-point penmakers have recovered from their recent slump. Last year's ball-point sales: 45 million, v. a mere 28 million conventional fountain pens...
...shipmates find little to admire in Rolland; only the canny first mate senses the courage and leadership under the rebel's mask. When an 18-year-old apprentice seaman is swept overboard in a heavy sea, it is Rolland who commands the dinghy that rescues the boy, though the waves turn Rolland's crewmates grey-faced with fear...
...Wife to Gamble. Back in France, his first mate friend packs Rolland off to navigation school, and in a few years Rolland becomes first mate of the Antonine. Off New Caledonia, the Antonine is hit by a hurricane. The wind shreds her sails and splinters her masts; the sea roars across her decks and smashes at her hull. With the captain dying, it is Rolland who tongue-lashes the men and keeps the Antonine afloat; with the captain's death, he gets his own captain's commission...
...captain. They marry and he takes her to sea with him. A few days out, Genvèieve gets seasick and stays seasick. Rolland, who is a different man at sea from what he is ashore, pooh-poohs her illness and sticks to the deck. Even when the first mate pleads with Rolland to land the sick woman, Rolland refuses. It takes him 20 days to round the Horn, and in that time he comes to know that he has gambled with his wife's life and lost. Author Vercel leaves him, as Conrad liked to leave his heroes...