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...LIFE OF SIR MARTIN FROBISHER-William McFee-Harper ($4). Frobisher was an Elizabethan seadog who did not sell himself to history as thoroughly as did Drake. Conscientious biography...
Fred Albert Britten is the Navy Department's best friend, the admirals' right arm. His predecessor, as chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, the late Thomas S. Butler of Pennsylvania, was a Quaker. Many a grizzled seadog suspected (wrongly) that Mr. Butler's faith tempered his ardor for a Big Navy. Mr. Britten, who learned about pugilism, hard-boiled politics and the contracting business in San Francisco and Chicago, has endeared himself to all U. S. sailors by years of pounding the table for more guns, more cruisers, more Navy. In the coming session he will pound...
...hundred and fifty years ago, Capt. James Cook, British seadog, who had sailed the Pacific from the Antarctic and the South Sea Islands to Alaska, anchored his good ship Resolution in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. There was joy among the natives, for the Great White God and his crew of Demi-Gods had come at last. In the shade of the ohia-lehuas, the priests chewed the meat of coconuts. Then they removed the juice from their mouths and rubbed it on the face and arms of Capt. Cook. He was fed with the flesh of sacrificed animals, washed down...
...Dempsey tells Mr. Kelly to find the painter's pallet. Whereupon Mr. Kelly tells the painter to open his mouth, but it is Mr. Dempsey who announces that all painters have weasels. Then lights blink, doors swing, screams are screamed-and people appear, one by one, a shaggy seadog with a hook for a hand, a chirping grandmother, a hail-girl-well-met, etc., etc. They are all looking for a fellow surnamed The Octopus who hangs humans by the feet when he hears the tick of a clock. They go down into the vault of the lighthouse where...
Like any ordinary canine, every seadog has his day. But unlike that of his terrestrial cousin, a sea-dog's day begins at noon, when the sun slips over the meridian. Ships' runs are reckoned, weeks of work paid, in 24-hour cycles that begin with p. m. instead of a. m. It has been so for years, centuries...