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Bock is the most fanatical. His fanaticism is military, not political. Leading an army into the Sudetenland, he took his twelve-year-old son, dressed in a sailor suit, along in his car "to impress on his son the beauty and exhilaration that lie in soldiering." German officers call him der Sterber, the dier, because of his great fondness for holding forth on the glories of dying for the Fatherland. It used to be generally said in Berlin that he had Russian blood in his veins. But it was blue blood...
...been a farmer and a sailor.) Sundays, for the first time "at liberty in Nature," he wandered the still unblemished Palisades; or, on Manhattan's South Street, edited the rigging of the world's richest show of sailing vessels. He also read-unsystematically, ignorantly, voluminously-and burned to become a writer...
...side shows, steeplechases, sly games to trap sucker money; the fortunes made and lost by Coney financiers ; the fires that periodically gutted the wooden jungles, during one of which lions ran in the streets with manes on fire; a female exhibitionist who smoked cigars "in a peculiar manner"; a sailor who took his girl through the darkened Old Mill ride and emerged without his pants...
...submarine circled about the captain's boat. A Nazi sailor gave the men four tins of ersatz bread, two tins of butter. Said the Nazi commander: "I'm sorry, but you were carrying supplies to my country's enemy." The German promised to radio the Robin Moor's position. Then he slid away into...
...they are handled, and he uses that knowledge as the blood and bone of his action. He never just blows up a loud atmosphere of adventure; every stratagem, every seafaring event is an intricate equation of courage, technique and sea-chance. He could make the sea exciting to a sailor, and its ways understandable to the harbor master of an Iowa graveyard...