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...campaign for Lowell last fall, after making, he claims, a gentleman's agreement with Blunden Backer Dr. Enid Starkie to limit the number of nominating signatures for each candidate. "She cheated me!" roared Bowra, when the flamboyant Miss Starkie, whose trademark is red underwear and a French sailor's hat, turned up with 301 names for Blunden to Bowra's 36 for Lowell. "She'll be standing on Magdalen Bridge selling rosettes next." Replied Starkie, who lectures in French: "I think a contest is fun. I love a battle." She admitted she had not read Poet...
From General Westmoreland to Secretary McNamara: "Many thanks for your congratulations. I consider the TIME selection as an award to every soldier, sailor, airman and marine serving in Viet Nam. As their senior representative and on behalf of all the armed forces personnel in the command, I am deeply honored by the distinction given us by TIME...
...Ashe was accused of assaulting another sailor with a knife in Puerto Rico. Before they were jointly tried by a general court-martial, one of Ashe's two co-defendants told the Navy commander defending them that Ashe had been merely a bystander when the assault occurred. On taking the stand, the same man suddenly switched his story and implicated Ashe. Startled, the commander told the court: "I don't think I can represent them both properly." How could he defend one man without attacking the other? Not moved, the court ordered counsel to continue, and found...
...Ginza assuages the married man's conscience (and concupiscence) with girls dressed in long, satin bridal gowns and lacy veils; the Aho (Idiot) Club in the Ueno District outfits its girls in crisp white nurses' uniforms and pale blue caps. There are bars with girls in sailor suits (to conjure up memories of the Imperial Navy), others where the intellectual clientele is served by misses who have read every literary quarterly...
Brilliantly prosed and composed by Yukio Mishima, a 40-year-old novelist and playwright (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion) who has been called "the Japanese Camus," The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is obviously intended as a major work of art -as an Oriental transfiguration of the novel of the absurd, and as a crypto-sociological study of the homicidal hysteria that, in Author Mishima's opinion, lies latent in the Japanese character. Unhappily, the book turns out to be simply a diabolically skillful thriller...