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Died. Harry Manning, 77, retired Vice Admiral of the U.S. Maritime Service, a crackerjack seaman who executed the bone-chilling lifeboat rescue of the crew of the Italian freighter Florida in 1929, accompanied Amelia Earhart as navigator on her first attempt to fly around the globe, and skippered the passenger liner United States on her 1952 maiden voyage across the Atlantic and back in record time (6 days, 22 hours, 52 minutes); after a long illness; in Saddle River...
...native of Alabama, a student at Harvard and Cornell, a steelworker and a merchant seaman as well as a professor of sociology, Beecher, 70, seems less a poet than a one-man recorder of American experience...
...number of firemen being treated for smoke inhalation," he says. Thirty-year-old Rivera has now been in the news business exactly three years and eight months as a reporter for New York City's WABC Eyewitness News. During that time, the former Brooklyn street-gang leader, merchant seaman, dry-goods salesman and poverty lawyer has won five Emmys, 74 other awards, and a $100,000-a-year salary. He has just started his own network show, Good-Night, America, a 90-minute magazine-format mixture of filmed reportage and talk-show discussion that premiered last month as part...
...formation of the CLUW is evidence of a new, pragmatic offshoot of the women's liberation movement: blue-collar feminism. Encouraged by their recent breakthroughs into traditionally male jobs such as apprentice seaman, and construction workers, women on the lower levels of the economic ladder are taking a more aggressive stance. In Gary, Ind., women in District 31 of the United Steelworkers of America will soon open a chapter of the National Organization for Women at union headquarters. In Manhattan, Cornell University's New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations offers a series of courses...
...theme. Those who have read any of Hanley's more than 40 other novels should not be surprised. At 73, he is one of the most consistently praised and least-known novelists in the English-speaking world. Born in Dublin and raised in Liverpool, Hanley became a merchant seaman at age 13, just before World War I. He is self-educated. Over the years he has written his way through any number of literary fashions. Some early sea stories have been compared to Conrad, though they are far less romantic. Hanley has been called a proletarian writer, too, mainly...