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...Heroic Sailor Horatio Hornblower is a durable fiction stalwart who has seized his own creator, Britain's Novelist C. S. (The African Queen) Forester, and, ever bolstered by readers clamoring for more, will not let him go. In Britain's weekly Spectator, Author Forester last week disclosed the agony to which his hero has long subjected him. Excerpt from Ballade to an Old Friend: I set Your Lordship in the House of Peers- / But you have brought me many a quid pro quo / Because we've been together twenty years . . . / Yet horrid Horry mawkish matelot, / Obnoxious more...
...Sailor's Sailor. The fact that Arleigh Albert ("31-Knot") Burke is at the helm of the new Navy is no accident of seniority. Last year able, Navy-wise Secretary Thomas began looking for a replacement for retiring Admiral Robert Carney as Chief of Naval Operations. Thomas was keenly aware of the nuclear revolution and deeply concerned about the Navy's failure to grasp its full significance. Thomas wanted a man with the vision and drive required by the atom. He wanted someone who understood naval aviation. But most of all he wanted a man that the Navy...
...bluejacket staggered through the thick odor and the rude sounds of the old port of Naples. A ragged urchin tugged and chanted at him: "You wanna girl, mister? I gotta my sister for you. Come on, Joe! Cheap!" the sailor pulled away, then slumped drunkenly to the sidewalk. Mouse-quick, the eight-year-old tried to grab the sailor's wallet, but the sailor weakly pushed him away. Unable to roll the man, the urchin sped away to sell him: in Naples bigger urchins pay 500 lire, perhaps 1,000 lire, for news of a likely victim to beat...
...call (to Wigglesworth), eyes peered furtively through a crack, and the door was hastily slammed. when Mr. Kellogg returned the next day, a number of people giggled at him. Later, he discovered that the Wigglesworth at him. Later, he discovered that the Wigglesworth man had been told that a sailor would appear at his door, dressed as a clergyman...
People are much more receptive now (the number of active college members has increased by 400 since 1936), but it's not just because Red looks less like a sailor. Part of the increasing response stems from Red's approach to students. Because students are perpetually in revolt against authority, he feels the most important thing is to avoid "harassing them" with morality and theological pedantry. "They think we're very moral," he says, "and are afraid we're going to prevent them from experimenting. But remember that Saint Augustine once said, "Lord, let me be pure, but not just...