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...most surprising new character to emerge upon the Argentine scene in many a day is a ten-year-old Spanish boy called El Galleguito (the little Galician). El Galleguito arrived in Buenos Aires last May as a stowaway aboard the liner Yapeyu, expecting to find an earthly paradise; Argentine seamen in the Spanish port of Vigo, where the boy led a catch-as-catch-can existence begging and running errands, had filled his ear with wondrous tales of their homeland. Argentine immigration authorities were not so encouraging, planned to send El Galleguito back to Spain. But a few weeks...
...According to British naval estimates," said Radio Moscow, "the anchoring of the Sverdlov should have taken one hour, 20 minutes. The Soviet cruiser anchored in 12 minutes." Asked the London News Chronicle: "Who said the Russians were no seamen...
...apparently, have readers' tastes, with such books as The Came Mutiny, The Sea Around Us and The Cruel Sea, following each other as successive bestsellers. Yet few present-day writers seem interested in following the old Conrad tradition which dealt with the "glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Of those who do, France's Roger Vercel, author of Salvage, Troubled Waters and a 1938 Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Tides of Mont St.-Michel, is perhaps the best. In his latest novel. Ride Out the Storm, he again pits hard men against the pitiless sea and lets...
...protector of the nation's disabled and needy, orphans and old folks. In the name of the President and the Public Health Service, she manages one of the world's greatest medical research centers, provides operations for harelipped children and blue babies, maintains hospitals for merchant seamen and dope addicts, an insane asylum and a leprosarium. Through the Office of Education, she distributes funds to land-grant colleges and administers the teacher-student exchange program with foreign countries. She is legally concerned with the problem of tapeworm control among Alaskan caribou, with cancer research, and with the attitude...
...resumed its steady course. "Morale, training, and a mighty tradition of seamanship, these still matter much more than numbers," gruffed London's Evening News. And Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express regarded the Soviet navy with a condescending eye: "This fleet is not manned by a race of seamen...