Word: puleston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...active service, Alfred Mahan never rose above Captain, became a Rear Admiral only when he retired. A contemptuous superior called him a "pen-and-ink sailor," and put caged canaries near his cabin to drown out the scratching of the Mahan pen. Today his biographer, Captain William Dilworth Puleston, U.S.N., retired, and most Navy men agree that his pen was mightier than a flotilla...
...write for the Hearst papers a series of articles entitled: "How I was a Spy in the American Navy for the Japanese Government." Price: $20,000. Condition: that he be given 72 hours head start to catch the Hindenburg for Germany. Newshawk Lewis promptly notified Chief William D. Puleston of Naval Intelligence. Next he demanded proof of "Dodo's" relations with the Japanese. Farnsworth called up Commander Yamaguchi in Lewis' presence, told him he needed money at once. A meeting place was arranged, and Farnsworth tried to persuade Lewis to masquerade as a cabdriver, accompany him. Lewis refused...
When Fred Puleston ran away from home at 17 and went to Africa as an agent for Hattan & Cookson he stayed there off and on for 14 years: 1882 to 1896. In this book he reminisces, makes statements that may surprise. Says he: All white men (except missionaries) of his acquaintance in the Congo had black "harems" (one to three native girls); he approves the custom. Cannibalism was common among the blacks; three of Agent Puleston's friends were eaten. Food was often a problem. ''Sometimes when we were very hard pressed for fresh food...
...Puleston deserves more than his meager fame as the expert who exposed Alfred Aloysius ("Trader") Horn. Indignation at the gross ignorance of Congo Africa which he detected in the "Horn-books" caused Dr. Puleston (a prosperous Miami, Florida physician of 20 years residence) to exclaim to friends, "I can't believe this man was ever in the Congo...
Impartial critics have pronounced the Puleston expose of "Horn" able, fully documented, damning. An elderly iconoclast with a penetrating, devil-take-the-prudes outlook, Dr. Puleston does not hesitate to say privately that the horror in which most whites hold "going native" has no scientific basis. As a physician, as one who has "gone," as a practical businessman who lived for many years in a community where every white man had a pitch black Congo woman, Dr. Puleston has stated that such a relation did not appear to harm either health or mentality. Whether it harmed morals he considers...