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...five children and inevitable golden retriever are all part of his headmasterly charm. A daily fixture on the playing fields of Exeter, he is famous for scrimmaging with the football team, skating with the hockey team, coaching the crew from his single shell on the Squamscott River. An avid sailor, he races off Cape Cod in his ancestrally named yawl Arbella. He may have slowed down a bit since 1961, when a flying hockey puck almost blinded one of his eyes, but he still plays tennis and beats 90% of the faculty...
...sailed into a New Jersey port with fires smoldering, unloaded her cargo, and sailed off again-still burning. The crewmen were in constant fear and complained to their union. A furloughed crewman, Able Seaman Zack Booth, a huge fellow known to his friends as "Big Brother," testified that one sailor, now missing, told him: "Big Brother, we are about to burn our house down...
Terence Stamp, as Billy Budd, is authentically simple. When he prefaces his hanging with the slightly reminiscent cry, "God bless Captain Vere," he does not portray Christ; he is a touching, naive sailor unable to understand the evil around him. He seems insanely stupid, yet real, when he fails to understand Claggart's malice and vengeful eyes...
Tragic Anecdotes. The explosion shot a half-ton piece of the Mont Blanc's anchor two miles through the air. It pulled a sailor off the deck of a nearby merchantman, and tossed him up to the top of a hill half a mile away. Somehow he lived. It tore rocks up from the bottom of the harbor and sent them raining from on high. It sucked up so much water that divers working 22 ft. down elsewhere in the harbor suddenly found themselves standing chest-deep and wallowing for their lives before the onrush of a tidal wave...
...Dewey, the ship looks more like a gingerbread house on a raft than a U.S. gunboat. She does not even have a full U.S. crew. Over the years, Chinese coolies in search of "squeeze" have slowly taken over all the work aboard-first the dirtiest jobs which no American sailor wanted to do, finally everything from cooking and laundry to electrical wiring and engine-room repair. By the time Jake Holman arrives, only the guns are reserved for U.S. control...