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Alec Guinness is king of this world, moving about (into the middle of traffic or otherwise) with a perfect, beautiful composure. He would have loved to have been a sailor, but he gets seasick all the time, so he has to make do without actual water. But everything else is the same. In his home on the pier, a boardwalk fun house tilted 45 degrees, he sleeps in a hammock, serves coffee to plump lady guests, catches them tactfully by the knees when they slide off their tilted chairs, and paces the floor (with some difficulty on the uphill...
...this world has a fragile dignity. Every once in a while the admiral smiles a strange wry little smile. The sailor's dance in the background is sometimes played on soft bells...
...Paul Vincent Shields, 73, founder and senior partner of Wall Street's Shields & Co., financial confidant of Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the first brokers to recognize and demand a thorough reform of the freewheeling New York Stock Exchange after the 1929 crash; of cancer; in Manhattan. A sailor by avocation, Shields and his business partner-brother Cornelius helped make yachting a mass U.S. sport by popularizing smaller boats with lower costs-6-Meters, Stars, Interclub Dinghies. Last year he paid more than $300,000 to buy and refit the 12-meter Columbia, successful 1958 America...
...American serviceman-the soldier, sailor, marine, or airman who has stood ready in countless spots around the world from the paddyfields of Viet Nam to the blue waters of the Caribbean to serve his country, and meanwhile acts with warmth and friendship as its most effective ambassador of people-to-people diplomacy...
...years at Chapel Hill, Sailor McKenna sped through 40 courses in science, literature and anthropology, made straight A's and Phi Beta Kappa. He stayed on after graduation in 1956, married a university librarian ("for my complete set of Wordsworth.'' she murmurs), and toiled at a first novel about the 1925 revolution in China. The book, called The Sand Pebbles, has just become the $10,000 Harper Prize novel of 1962, is a Book-of-the-Month choice for January, and has been bought by Hollywood for a minimum...