Word: mikes
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WHEN Contributing Editor Michael -(TM) Demarest wrote this week's cover story on Greek Shipping Magnate Stavros Spyros Niarchos and the boom in postwar shipping, he brought to his subject an understanding and feeling that came from long personal experience at sea. Mike spent three of the World War II years sailing in all classes of merchantmen, but mostly in tankers, about the Atlantic and Pacific...
...scholarship and the right to occupy Tom Brown's old room at Rugby, one of the oldest of British public schools. There he revolted against concentrated study of dead languages and. between Nazi air raids on nearby Coventry, began to specialize in English literature. After classes, Mike, then a lanky teenager, carried a rifle in the Rugby Home Guard, commanded by a Greek professor who was constantly plotting the defense of the school according to the tactics of the Peloponnesian...
...majoring in Anglo-Saxon and pre-Shakespearean drama at Oxford's Magdalen College in 1942 when he decided to return to the U.S. and help fight the war. At Liverpool he joined the crew of a U.S. freighter bound for New York. His British training hardly prepared Mike for his rugged American shipmates, but he found them so fascinating and life at sea in wartime so exciting that he signed up with the Merchant Marine soon after he landed in New York. "By the time the war ended," he said, "I just couldn't go back to Oxford...
...This," says Mike, "is my American education...
OHIO. The 58-vote delegation decided against the unit rule, although almost all votes are controlled on the first ballot by Governor Frank Lausche, who will be nominated for President by Gubernatorial Hopeful Mike Di Salle. In a preconvention hedge, Lausche's aides prepared to welcome Harriman campaigners into Ohio this week, listen respectfully to talk about a Harriman-Lausche ticket...