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Lieutenant Hornblower covers the period between Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950) and the high tides of action in Captain Horatio Hornblower (1939). It takes the young officer on a raiding expedition to the West Indies. A few days out, the captain goes mad, and has to be straitjacketed in quarters. Off Santo Domingo, the Renown runs aground as a Spanish fortress pounds her with red-hot cannonballs, but the "uncontrollable vigour" of young Hornblower saves the day. At his suggestion, a broadside fired at the fort jars the ship loose from the sucking sands; a night attack reduces the fort itself...
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...Antique Accessories. ¶ Purchase of the week-by the University of California at Los Angeles: the famed 12,000-volume Victorian literature collection once owned by British Publisher Michael Sadleir. Items: hundreds of rarer "three-decker" novels and yellowbacks by such oldtime bestsellers as "Captain" Frederick Marryat (Mr. Midshipman Easy), Mrs. Henry (East Lynne) Wood and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. ¶ New York CitySchool Superintendent William. Jansen announced that, beginning next fall, his high schools will have the most lifelike atomic-energy classes ever, complete with real radioisotopes imported from the Atomic Energy Commission. Next month New York teachers will...
...father, Levi Judson, fifth generation of an old Connecticut family, wrote solemn essays on the nature of man, and tried his best to ground his son in the elements of decent behavior. Ned was about twelve years old when he ran away to sea; at 15 he was a midshipman in the Navy. At 21, he was dashing off sea stories and editing Ned Buntline's Magazine (a "buntline" is the rope at the bottom of a square sail). Two years later, a recent widower, he was caught in a Nashville cemetery with the wife of a local auctioneer...
...natural sciences. Sample G.E. course: "Humanism in the West"-man's ideals, tensions, hopes and failures as seen through great books from the Iliad to the Waste Land. ¶ The U.S. Naval Academy, with one deadpan eye on West Point, reported that it had just fired one midshipman for cheating. (West Point's score so far this year: 90-odd.) ¶St. John's College, Annapolis (The Great Books), which last year decided to tonic its dwindling student body by taking in coeds, got its first one (of 24 now enrolled). Said 17-year-old Sue Griffith...