Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FLAMINGO FEATHER, by Laurens van der Post (341 pp.; Morrow; $3.95). A bloody envelope, a pink-and-white feather, a sailor's cap, a murdered Negro-what does it all add up to and how does it tie in with the South African firm of Lindel-baum & Co., wine and spirit importers? Thanks to the throb of distant tom-toms (which seem to be saying Mau Mau), the least alert reader can guess that the spirits imported by evil Mr. Lindelbaum are more vodka and voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture...
...Nassau, B.W.I., more than 48 hours after leaving Miami, the 39-ft. yawl Hoot Mon (skippered by Lockwood Pirie, a reformed, Star-boat sailor) drifted across the finish line in the slowest Miami-Nassau race on record and won that blue-water championship for the second year running...
...Tufts College, in Medford, Mass., Pride was a B-plus engineering student when World War I came. There was no family discussion; Mel simply showed up at home one day in a sailor suit. He had enlisted in the Reserve as a machinist's mate second class, with the specific intention of becoming an aviator. After ground training at M.I.T. he went to Pensacola and learned to fly the Navy's N-9-an old Jenny dressed up with a pontoon and wing floats. Commissioned a Reserve ensign, Pride was designated Naval Aviator...
Serge was a precocious boy whose doting mother pampered him and made him wear sailor suits until he was 13. After the Bolsheviks took over in Russia, father Rubinstein, according to Serge, lined his greatcoat with rubles and jewels, and raced off across the frozen Gulf of Finland in a troika. The family followed him four months later, and ten-year-old Serge arrived in Stockholm with money pinned all over his undershirt, and a big sapphire hung around his neck...
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...