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...world, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis graduated it's first Negro. Conspicuous in the spread of crisp white uniforms at Dahlgren Hall, Ensign Wesley Anthony Brown, U.S.N., got his diploma, joyfully tossed his cap in the air with those of his 789 classmates. His mother, plump Mrs. Rosetta Brown, who had pressed pants to help him through high school, watched proudly from the galleries. Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway Jr., the Academy superintendent, greeted her at the June Week garden party. Brown and his Annapolis girl friend, Sylvia Hicks Johnson (see cut), an undertaker's secretary, danced...
...huge, circular dance floor through the preliminary stuff-Ike Carpenter's band, the Bobby True Trio, but when the main event came on they howled with delight. And when 35-year-old, toupee-topped Crooner Frankie Laine finally let them have what they wanted -his bobbing, bouncing Rosetta and By the River Sainte Marie-they were on their feet...
These inscriptions were the "Rosetta Stone of Western Asia" which enabled scholars to decipher Babylonian and the other cuneiform languages of ancient Mesopotamia. About 100 years ago, philologists dangled from the cliff to copy part of the inscriptions; they tried it again in 1904. But much was missed or garbled, and the inscriptions are too inaccessible to be photographed effectively. The Cameron party will make accurate copies by pressing a rubber compound against the carvings. Orientalists all over the world are eagerly awaiting the results...
They talk about the war and the world they live in until at Rosetta's suggestion they sit at a booth, where the dialogue becomes first a conscious and then a dream exploration of what they know or can remember of human life-the Seven Ages of Man, that end in senescence and death...
When the bar closes, Rosetta invites the three men to her apartment for sandwiches and a nightcap. She and Emble are attracted to each other, and all four, in their alcoholic glow, feel the exciting promise of this union. But when Rosetta returns after seeing Quant and Malin to the door, she finds Emble passed out cold on her bed. The promise of love was an illusion. The poem ends, as it began, in the loneliness and frustration of all four characters, for Auden is preaching a revulsion from all temporal goods, including human love; the only thing to hold...