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...Army probed deeper into the sergeants' cabal, they eventually came up against Crum and his "friends." Last June, the Army placed Cole on involuntary retirement after demoting him to colonel and stripping him of medals. Crum has dropped from sight-presumably to sail his yacht in the South Pacific while charting his next move...
Your statement that "most other shipping had been suspended during the fog" is not factual. During the period of fog, a total of seven other vessels entered or sailed from San Francisco Bay. There were no other vessels scheduled to sail or arrive during that period...
...wave rises in the Maine sea and its sharp volume displaces air; Marin painted the wind as visibly as he drew the belly of a sail or the prow of a boat. Such abstraction as went on in his paintings was solely designed to clarify these clashings and peakings of force and substance, to turn it all into paint-"paint wave a'breaking on paint shore." He had instinctively hit upon the same vision of nature that produced the interlocking solidity of Cubist space, but he applied it to landscape in a fluid and dynamic way that bore very...
...Adventure of Sail 1520-1914 by Captain Donald Macintyre, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N. 256 pages. Random House. $25. Far more sea-and eyeworthy than the usual splendiferous, spanker-sized boat book, in part because it offers longish selections from the writings of Conrad, James Cook, Lord Nelson, Richard Dana, George Anson and others. More notable, though, is the broad range of paintings and illustrations, and the fact that whoever did the captions miraculously knew a lot about things like rigging-and caption writing...
Prudential-Grace Lines announced that the 300-passenger Santa Rosa and Santa Paula will sail out of New York harbor on their final Caribbean cruises in January, bringing to an even dozen the number of American luxury ships retired over the past three years. Like most former passenger lines, Prudential-Grace will concentrate on freight. Said President Spyros S. Skouras Jr., who merged his Prudential Lines with the Grace Line fleet last December: "It's the foreign-flag cruise ships-they beat us every time...