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...pitted his skill against the sea in small, hand-built boats; after his battered 11½-ft. sloop Little One was found empty 400 miles west of Ireland and 143 days out of Montauk Point, L.I. A seaman since 15, Willis sailed alone in 1954 aboard a balsa raft from Peru to Samoa, and in 1963-64 made a 10,000-mile solo voyage from Peru to Australia. Before his third and last unsuccessful attempt to reach England from America alone, he said: "The greatest challenge is to prevent the solitude from driving you so mad that you want...
...center of it all is an aimiable British comedian, Frankie Howerd, who plays a character named John Emery Rockefeller--conveniently giving the authors the opportunity to include a raft of Rockefeller jokes. (The play's being retitled Rockefeller and the Indians for its Broadway bow.) Mr. Howerd could probably be quite funny, if he were not hampered by such handicaps as the script and direction. Perhaps if Mr. Shevelove let his star run wild and ignore the play, Sassafras would draw more laughs than its present quota...
...ferry, a little girl's wicker basket is accidentally knocked overboard by a passenger. Like the owl and the pussycat, she and a young boy go to sea in pursuit, navigating their inflated raft by a primer-simple map of the six continents. When they want to go to the Red Sea it turns out to be red; the Black Sea becomes black. At last they arrive at a place where, the girl complains, "they forgot to color the water." An island rises from the clear waves, and the voyagers suddenly find themselves beached in a magical, adult-free...
...where they must spend the weekend together. There they play ball and hike under careful supervision by a staff more interested in rehabilitation than in punishment. Every night there are group discussions of problems at school or at home. Each year the high point of the program is the raft trip...
Most common complaint of the travelers is that the trips are too long. But Probation Officer David Cook, director of the program, points out that it is only during the final week or two that real unity develops. "The raft is perfect for group therapy," he says. "You can control almost all the pressures on the boys." After the only incident of trouble on the latest journey-some swearing in a Y.M.C.A.-the guilty boy was made to feel so unhappy about letting his buddies down that he punished himself by standing alone for an hour in the corner...