Word: rafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Sculptor Browere's busts went museumwards at last. Financier Stephen C. Clark (who has spent a raft of his Singer sewing machine money on art) bought all 20, presented them to the New York State Historical Association. In a special "Hall of Life Masks" at the Association's museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., they will go on display next June, as the first event in Cooperstown's sesquicentennial celebration of its most famed native son, James Fenimore Cooper-one contemporary whose bust Browere never got round to making...
...minutes. He is equally hard-pressed to keep the book's romantic inspirations from seeming merely grotesque when viewed by the literal lens of a camera. A tame ostrich (apocryphally discovered dwelling in a South Sea jungle) taught to haul timber, a stuffed turtle towing a raft-load of gleeful Robinsons will divert children. For older boys there is always Mother Robinson (Edna Best) cavorting around in a pair of buckskin slacks...
Then somebody with a dead white face and a bleeding forehead came up beside me. I helped him on to the raft and he was horribly sick. His trousers had been sucked off. He said he was a cabin steward...
...know one is supposed to feel pretty grim perched precariously on a raft in the middle of the Atlantic, but I didn't. I have seldom felt better. I suppose the realisation that one wasn't dead was such an inexpressible relief that anything else seemed trivial by comparison. I felt rather like one does on coming to after laughing gas; I had the giggles...
...then a lifeboat appeared. It was in charge of Nelson, who shouted at me something about chess, and asked whether we were all right on the raft, as the boat was full...