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...friend tries to guess: "O King David! O Plutarch and Seneca! O chivalry! . . . O Strozzi Palace. O Weimar! O Don Giovanni, O lineaments of gratified desire! O godlike man! Tell me, pal, am I getting warm?" He is. But by this time, war has come, and Augie, joining the merchant marine, goes to New York. He sees Stella there, marries her and reflects that he doesn't envy his brother, "seeing I was married to a woman I loved and therefore I was advancing on the only true course of life...
...Down. In Philadelphia, Merchant Seaman Harold L. Walsh, telling police how two strong-arm men had held him up, taken his $30 wristwatch but had missed $65 in his wallet, summed up indignantly: "I've been robbed in all the biggest ports . . . [I've] always been cleaned out, never left with a cent. These guys, they miss 65 bucks . . . Your boys are slipping...
Since the Korean armistice was signed two months ago. eleven merchant vessels -nine British, one Danish and one Italian -have been intercepted in the China Sea. At least two were escorted to the Nationalist port of Keelung, where their cargoes were confiscated. One, the S.S. Inchkilda, was rescued by the British light aircraft carrier Unicorn, which signaled the Admiralty: "Unicorn closed and ordered the gunboat to stop. None of the riffraff on board could read the signal...
...Back Door, at Night. In 1212, when Clare was about 18, a strange and pious youth named Francis, the son of Assisi's rich cloth merchant, came to preach a Lenten course of sermons in the church of San Giorgio. In young Francis, who had dedicated himself to God and poverty, Clare knew at once that she had found the inspiration of her life. She appealed to him to help her leave the worldly world, as he had done. Together the two future saints concocted a holy plot. On Palm Sunday she appeared in church with her mother...
...although Abdullah and 77% of the Kashmiris were Moslems, Abdullah organized a People's Militia that fought the Pakistanis until the Indian army flew in to the rescue. It was a desperate defense, and the Lion of Kashmir inspired it. Once, the Pakistani tribesmen lashed a young merchant to the porch of an apple shop and told him to shout, "Pakistan zindabad, Sher-i-Kashmir' murdabad!" (Long live Pakistan! Death to the Lion of Kashmir!). But the young man refused. So the tribesmen crowned him with a jagged piece of tin, and put 14 shots through his body...