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...hole," related Ray, "and I threw myself down in it and covered myself with a green cloth. I crossed my arms and put my head down and hoped they wouldn't find me. They almost didn't." But on the second search of the island, one British sailor noticed the green-covered lump and hustled Ray to his feet...
HOME IS THE SAILOR by Jorge Amado. 298 pages. Knopf...
...printing leaflets and posters with his name misspelled SALLINGER, but it is now functioning with considerable precision. Some 10,000 people are working for him across the state, including a galaxy of Hollywood stars and starlets. A squad of six shapely coeds called "Sweethearts for Salinger," clad in white sailor shifts and red, white and blue berets, has been formed to pass out pink champagne and campaign propaganda at Salinger rallies...
Darker Depths. It is idle to speculate on why the best of U.S. novelists was so wretched a poet. The reason may merely be that there is no connection between the two pursuits. At any rate, Melville wrote little if any poetry as a young man. He was a sailor, a travel and adventure memoirist (Typee), and a much-applauded literary figure who had no reason to believe his success would not continue. Then in 1851, at the age of 32, he wrote Moby-Dick. Its depths confused the critics, and it was not much praised or purchased...
Surprisingly enough, the college sailor encounters almost no personal resentments. We are no economic threat, and most professionals admire the industry that sends us out to earn money in the summer--if indeed that is why we go. There is a lot of money to be made; I know student waiters who brought home $3000, and one boy, studying navigation at the NY State Marine Academy, was paid $5000 for one trip to Vladivostok...