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...Sailor, Sense of Humour and Other Stories, by V. S. Pritchett. Saints, scoundrels and scapegoats put nimbly through the short-story hoop by a top critic (TIME...
...SAILOR, SENSE OF HUMOUR & OTHER STORIES (369 pp.)-V. S. Pritchett-Knopf...
...Margaret, hiking her skirt, declares that Jill has brought a flea into her life. It seems that the flea-not an "ordinary" London one but "some great black foreign brute"-sprang from Jill onto Margaret. But why was Jill harboring the flea in the first place? Because a young sailor had given it to her-not intentionally, of course, but because he and Jill went to bed together, and (to put it briefly) "fleas hop." By the end of the story, poor Jill is lying prone on the barroom floor, overcome by shame, double gins, and the loss...
Memorizing the Bible was the key to conversion, as Trotman saw it, so he handed out scores of Scriptures to youth groups he organized. One day in 1934 a mother asked him to look up her son, a sailor on a ship off Long Beach. Sitting in his old car by the waterfront, Trotman quoted the Bible to the boy until a policeman grew suspicious. A few minutes later, Trotman had talked the cop into joining him and the sailor in a session of prayer. The sailor said: "I'd give my right arm if I could do what...
...beginning of a movement that Trotman called the Navigators, for its nautical origins. For that sailor converted a friend with the technique he had learned from Dawson Trotman, and that convert in turn convinced another. Soon Navigators were spread across the seven seas. At one point during the war there were Navigators in more than 1,000 U.S. Navy ships and stations...