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...last Harvard sailor to win the McMillan cup was George O'Day '45 who went on to win an Olympic Gold Medal. Before him, John F. Kennedy won the trophy in 1940 for Harvard. The continued success of both Harvard and Radcliffe's sailing teams this year underscores the necessity of improved facilities that the new boat house will provide once completed for the Spring season...
Raleigh, "a most satirical courtier," commands the book, but three splendid set pieces are the best of it. Garrett summons three ghosts-a sergeant, a sailor, a courtier. These winy wraiths testify singly and at bold length about Raleigh, but mostly about soldiering, flattering, storms and other things they know. The illusion is so good that the skin crawls. Here, for example, is the courtier taking his leave: "This ghost, an ageless young man, ever idle and restless, courteous and cruel, unchanging child of change, this man will say no more. He touches his lips to signal silence. He smiles...
...which is rather nice, there is not even much style to recommend. One or two sentences, not more, are worth prizing out of their settings to be enjoyed. "She laughed," Condon writes with a bit of the old jazz, in "three low musical tones, deliciously, like a dying sailor's memory of a whorehouse doorbell." Let the dying reader's memory be of The Manchurian Candidate...
...also a pet monkey named Safi. With Heyerdahl sailed an oddly assorted crew of six: a Russian doctor, an Italian mountain climber, a Mexican anthropologist, an Egyptian judo champion, and Abdullah, a desert dweller from Chad who did not even know the sea was salt. The only real sailor on board was a New York building contractor named Norman Baker, an old Navyman...
...Clydebank, meanwhile, the shop stewards man the gates, checking that no machinery or materials are being trucked away. But the first firings are scheduled for this week. Will the peaceful "workin" turn violent? Equally dramatic, if not quite so important: Will Sailor Ted's team win the coveted Admiral's Cup? To be continued...