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Fletcher Martin was born in Colorado, son of an ambulant small-town newspaper man who made him a journeyman printer at 12. At 15, Fletcher Martin ran away, has been on the loose ever since. As a lumberman, harvester and sailor, he discovered art by drawing dirty pictures for his pals. He joined the Navy to get three squares a day, became a top-notch boxer, began painting seriously when he got out in 1926. Settling in California, he rapidly won museum awards, Federal mural jobs; had one-man shows in Los Angeles and in San Diego...
Fighting-chinned Bert Lytell, now 55, made his New York debut in 1914 with Marie Dressier in A Mix-Up. During World War I he toured U. S. cities on a tank, selling Liberty bonds, while Singer Harry Richman, then a sailor, bawled The Rose of No Man's Land. In Manhattan Lytell may often be seen, inside three sweat shirts, circling the Central Park reservoir. Oldtime matinee idolizers often say that Bert Lytell's profile hasn't changed in 20 years. It hasn...
...From Brunsbüttel to Borkum two Englishmen poked a seven-tonner between the shifting Frisian sands and into Imperial Germany's British-invasion preparations. No ordinary spy story, this is a reprint of a soundly calked yarn of pre-World War I days. To the small-boat sailor its puzzle of channels and fog is better than any cadaver by the mizzen...
Trelawny also met Byron. Yachting, Trelawny found, was almost as popular among the Pisan expatriates as poetry and revolution. He got a boatbuilder friend to construct the Bolivar for Byron, the Ariel for Shelley. One day Shelley, a very bad sailor, sailed off with two friends and copies of Sophocles and Keats. A few days later their bodies were washed ashore. Trelawny built more funeral pyres. While Byron and Leigh Hunt tossed incense, salt, sugar and wine, Trelawny lit the flames under Shelley's fish-eaten, livid corpse. Said Trelawny: "I restore to nature, through fire, the elements...
...Bombay the young sailor met a mysterious American named De Ruyter, one of several men for whom he was to develop romantic attachments. He shipped with him in a privateer. Armed with six 9-pounders, manned by a miscellaneous crew of Arab, Dutch, English, American adventurers, the "lovely little craft" was also stocked with a library. By night De Ruyter and Trelawny (dressed as an Arab) lay on deck, gazing at the Southern Cross during "endless discussion of freedom and revolution." By day they sank other ships, rescued no survivors. Trelawny rescued a sheik's daughter from African pirates...