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Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10:--Samuel Eliot Morison, giving History 160c for the last time before his retirement, casts an old sailor's eye on Washington crossing the Delaware and decides that even a general shouldn't stand up in the boat. Morison also takes a close look in Harvard 2 at the heated convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and the subsequent battle over the ratification of the Constitution...
...which first startled the highbrow highways more than a quarter century ago. Nor do they necessarily provide a joy ride. In Joyce's The Dead, the reader will find a depressing Christmas party in lace-curtain Dublin; in Melville's Billy Budd, Foretopman, the hanging of a sailor aboard a British man-of-war of the Hornblower period; in Porter's Noon Wine, the madness and death of a farmhand and the suicide of a farmer in horse-and-buggy Texas; in Gogol's The Overcoat, the acquisition and loss of an overcoat by a clerk...
...Pentagon Yoshida encountered the only lapse in the social success of his visit. After a talk with Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, his party could find no trace of their guide, Vice Admiral Arthur Davis. A sailor who happened to be passing by volunteered to guide them to the office of Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...have him back. When the royal motor yacht Deo Juvante II glided past the harbor breakwater at the end of a 7,000-mile cruise, the young (31) prince himself was at the helm, sporting a month-old growth of beard and looking every inch a blue-water sailor. Cheering crowds of Monégasques lined the waterfront to greet him and to gaze in wonder at the deck load of souvenirs he had brought back: cages of live chimpanzees, baboons, gibbons, and marmosets, a pelican, an egret, two gazelles and six baby caymans, all destined for a new national...
Died. Willis W. Bradley, 70, retired U.S. Navy captain, onetime (1929-31) governor of Guam and Republican Congressman from California (1947-49), winner of the Medal of Honor in 1917 for heroism during an ammunition explosion aboard the cruiser Pittsburgh (he rescued a sailor, then put out a fire that had almost reached other explosives); of a heart ailment; in Santa Barbara, Calif...