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...Mayflower had arrived as tempest-tossed as its namesake. Under the hand of oldtime Australian Skipper Alan Villiers, the 32-man crew had bounced along, wave-lashed in a peanut shell for 53 days (v. 66 days for the original...
...Sewers. "What a strange lot they were, when I think on it!'' recalls Miller. "Judson Crews of Waco, Texas, one of the first to muscle in, reminded one-because of his shaggy beard and manner of speech-of a latter-day prophet. He lived almost exclusively on peanut butter and wild mustard greens . . ." Some were writers of great books, incomprehensibly without publishers. Another merely "smelled of genius." Another was writing "a chthonian [i.e., from the nether world] drama mirroring the nightmare," etc. Even the man who might put in sewers would do so with a "somnambulistic clairvoyance." Finally...
...thanked him, bought a ticket and the traditional bag of peanuts, and stepped onto a boat. As we peddled along slowly, the ducks dabbled for peanuts, pigeons fluttered and landed on our brass rail, and grackles cawed and clucked on the ponds little island. On the boat itself, two children lost their pinwheels and a third hit a nearby pigeon's flank with a well-aimed peanut. The ride was as the skipper had said, though, smooth, gliding, and graceful--just like a swan...
...other speakers on the program, Victor Gruen, an architect, and Andrew Heiskell, publisher of Life magazine. Heiskell emphasized the opposition encountered by city planners, and quoted early abuse of Rockefeller Center by the New York Times and Walter Lippmann, who called Radio City Music Hall "a pedestal for a peanut...
...spite of some weakness in organization, Damn Yankees is by far the best musical that Boston has seen in a long time. And if the prices seem a little steep, the show makes enough noise so that peanut heaven at the Shubert isn't half...