Word: rowboats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BARBARA SREER, by Stephen Birmingham (371 pp.; Little, Brown; $4.50), is based on a standard Marquand gambit-you can go home again, and again, and again. As she sees herself, Barbara is a yacht-club girl in a rowboat basin. Locustville, Pa. is an industrial town, and her husband Carson is an organization nomad in a Brooks Brothers shirt. When Carson heads for London on one of his periodic sales junkets, Barbara deposits their two little boys with the maid and flies off like a homing pigeon to her dear old home in gracious, spacious Burketown, Conn...
...hero crosses to Manhattan in a rowboat with an outboard motor, wanders half insane with loneliness and terror through the enormous canceled city. "I'm alive!" he screams, "I'm alive!" But by this time he has lost all hope that anybody else is. He takes up residence in a pleasant apartment on lower Fifth Avenue, begins to make the best of his mournful immense inheritance of culture and convenience...
Harsen Smith had long thought in terms of family. The Chris-Craft business itself is a closely knit family enterprise. It was founded in 1894 by Harsen's grandfather, Christopher Columbus Smith, when he installed a naphtha-gas engine in a homemade rowboat and began selling rides. Today, 54 members of the Smith family still firmly control and share in the direction of the company he started...
Most frustrating to Thach's goblin killers is the sea's own natural cacophony. Antisubmarine-warfare hands are trained to differentiate the sound of a sub from that of a destroyer or a rowboat. But they must also learn that a school of shrimp sounds like fish frying, that sea robins cluck, that the white whale creaks like the lid on Davy Jones's locker, that the eel makes a zizz like water on a hot stove, and the whistling, jocular porpoise makes enough noise to give any sonarman a headache. Most deceptive of all for Thach...
...about the Wilson order. Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, onetime Secretary of the Air Force, rapped it as "patchwork." Less publicly, Pentagon brass agreed with him. Trying to solve the nagging re-enlistment problem with so skimpy a measure seemed like trying to bail out a leaky rowboat with a beer can. What the military leaders wanted to see was adoption of the newly released Cordiner report, a thoughtful pay-revision plan drawn up by a military-civilian advisory committee chaired by General Electric's President Ralph J. Cordiner. Disappointed with Wilson's pay-boost directive...