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...latter half, however, the Bellboys began to tire and high scorer Peter Banks strated to make his jump shot more often. Bank's 12 points, Neil Muncaster's six, and Bill Cowin's rebounding all contributed heavily to the Winthrop victory. Dave Sailor was high man for the losers with ten points...
Pasha Pants. First came the Mardi Gras traditional "Mystic Krewe"-70 men dressed in crown-shaped hats, yellow sailor-type collars, ballooning gold pants. gold sashes and white masks. Next came the "King," Louisiana Industrialist (forest products) Parrish Fuller, who was costumed in a jeweled crown, aquamarine pasha pants and cloak. Then 26 pretty Louisiana "queens" - Yambilee (i.e., yams) Queen, Shrimp Queen, Cotton Queen, Livestock and Pasture Queen, etc. -each accompanied by a masked "Duke" in wig, buckled shoes and knee breeches. Each queen curtsied low to the evening's guests of honor, Vice President Richard Nixon...
...Candide. Voltaire used the Lisbon affair to demolish the fashionable interpretation of the Leibnitz philosophy by which every happening was necessary and therefore good. Candide and Dr. Pangloss had a terrible time in the earthquake, despite their good characters; only a "brutal sailor" did well out of the disaster, happy in the ruins with loot, wine and women. Thus Voltaire derided the notion that those who have bad luck must deserve it. Some men as sensible as Voltaire, and more charitable, recalled what Jesus said on the occasion of a mishap in the Holy Land: "Those eighteen, upon whom...
...quick view of this fantastic life and a wide sampling of his work are given in this volume. Included are biographical notes, an album of photographs and excerpts from essays and novels, many autobiographical, e.g., Martin Eden, in which London saw himself as a "rough, uneducated sailor" who ends a suicide. There are also remarkably evocative eyewitness accounts (the San Francisco earthquake, a typhoon off Japan) and 25 short stories, some of them little known. Among the best: Jan, the Unrepentant, a hilarious yarn in which some trappers prepare to hang a suspected murderer, and The Law of Life, about...
...SAILOR, SENSE OF HUMOR & OTHER STORIES, by V. S. Pritchett. Critic Pritchett, who is also one of Britain's top short-story writers, sketching directly from life. The best items in this collection, extremely funny and uncommonly shrewd about people, have the impact of a bitter quarrel overheard...