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Drawing on extensive interviews with Coe's companion, Virginia Perham, Olsen details the rage behind the go-getter smile. The vaunted independence was in fact financed by parental handouts. Often impotent, Coe bragged of his sexual prow ess to Perham as if she had not witnessed his failures. He alternately fasted and gorged on junk food, used the name Kevin with girlfriends and clients and spoke in a variety of voice inflections. "Knowing Fred Coe," said a schoolmate, "was like having a platoon of friends...
Shortly after 11 p.m. one of Andrea Doria's card players looked idly out of a starboard window and gasped. Eerie lights of another ship glinted and sprinted out of the darkness towards Andrea Doria. A moment later, with a grinding, crunching roar, Stockholm's knife-sharp prow (reinforced for ice in northern ports) ground 30 ft. deep into the starboard quarter of Andrea Doria, just abaft her flying bridge. Then, with a shudder and shower of sparks, the shivering vessels jerked apart...
...myself (stupidly) as a Roman trireme my tongue as the prow, bronze, pushing at her; she was the Mediterranean. Tiers of slaves, my god, the helplessness of them, pulled oars, long stalks that metaphorically and rhythmically bloomed with flowing clusters of short-lived lilies at the water's surface...
...steamboat got caught in Ohio River ice. The 26-year-old passenger from Paris, Alexis de Tocqueville, dispassionately wrote in his notebook, "Just now the vessel is cracking from poop to prow." There was nothing to do but go ashore, and once there, no way except by walking to reach Louisville, 25 miles away over a snow-covered trail. But Tocqueville had limitless energy and curiosity. As Political Columnist Richard Reeves observes in this book retracing the French aristocrat's nine-month journey through the U.S., even after the freezing forced march Tocqueville was still restlessly observing and asking...
There were no such mishaps. Flanked by royal guards dressed in scarlet, black and turquoise uniforms with plumed helmets, King Bhumibol stepped out of his pale yellow Rolls-Royce and boarded the Suphannahongse (Golden Swan), a 15-ton, 148-ft. vessel with a fierce, swanlike prow. Propelled by 54 crimson-clad rowers, the barge glided down the river like a giant mythological bird. As gold-encrusted conch shells and silver trumpets heralded the royal procession, several hundred thousand Thais gathered along the riverbank to catch a glimpse of their King...