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There a friend of Don Juan's got a cable from Messina, Sicily, signed "Con-de Barcelona" (one of his titles), saying he would be along four days hence. When he arrived, Prendergast found him wearing a sailor's blue dungarees, faded blue canvas sneakers and "for reasons I'll never know, only one sock. I like the man tremendously...
...looks of a spirited waif. She plays one in Honey-a little urchin abandoned by her mother and by a Negro sailor who has left her pregnant, later befriended by a pale, homosexual boy who prepares her for motherhood. She is freckled and mousy, with wide-spreading lips and eyes the size of deep-summer plums. But she is an actress, not a slum kitten picked up for verisimilitude...
...night, and police continued to press their beefed-up counter-campaign." The Chronicle started an April Aaron Fund; the News-Call Bulletin offered $500 for her attacker's arrest. The Examiner, scrabbling frantically for new crime-wave evidence, picked up a police-blotter report about a purse-snatching sailor and triumphantly blew it onto Page...
Abandoned, the girl goes looking for love. The first thing she finds is trouble: a Negro sailor (Paul Danquah) who loves her and leaves her-pregnant. The second thing she finds is a friend: a shy young homosexual (Murray Melvin), who needs to give what she needs to receive: mother love. He moves into her flat and briskly "takes' her in 'and." Runs her up some baby clothes, starts her eating properly for two, goes to the clinic for a stack of diapers and a doll to practice on. But all too soon the idyl ends...
...cover stories in the field. Cant, 52, before he became Medicine editor, spent five years as a writer and correspondent for TIME. During the war, Cant made two extensive tours of the Pacific theater as a correspondent, wrote three books on the Navy's role there. An enthusiastic sailor (sloops, not stinkpots) and field birder, Cant carries over into these fields some of his passion for meticulousness...