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...drifted in his lifeguard's rowboat, a playful swimmer reached up and began rocking the boat. Quesada's response was strikingly similar to his techniques even today: he raised an oar and whacked the swimmer on the hands. The victim was an Air Service pilot. The two made friends quickly, and soon thereafter the pilot took Quesada up for an airplane ride. That did it: the day after his first ride, Pete Quesada joined the Air Service, went off to training as a flying cadet. He became a first-class pilot...
...Chris-Craft the sale marks the end of a family saga that began in 1894 when Chairman Smith's grandfather installed a naphtha-gas engine in a homemade rowboat and began selling rides...
...showed a 19-ft. outboard cabin cruiser ($2,800) designed by famed naval architects Gibbs & Cox. Other plastic boats ranged from Sock Boat Corp.'s do-it-yourself runabout ($395), which can be assembled by a novice in 20 hours to the 8-ft. ($325) Dhow midget rowboat. In general, outboards had less chrome, fewer fins, increased storage for gas, paid more attention to passenger comfort...
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...