Word: sharked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Part Two of Plievier's story picks up Wenzel, again flat broke, in another South American port. He wanders into the waterfront dive run by Milly, a "shark" who helps shanghai drunken sailors into freighter crews. Wenzel's young face and smooth muscles soften Milly's heart; as she liquors up a crew for a wretched guano ship, she decides to save him for herself. But Wenzel refuses the favor and takes his place with his tricked and sodden buddies...
...editors expected our cover story on Senator Paul Douglas' speech ("The Fin of the Shark," Jan. 22) to bring us a heavy load of mail. They were right. But they did not expect something else that happened. The Senator's office was swamped with hundreds of letters and wires of praise for his analysis, as reported in this magazine. Some samples...
Would either accomplish the job that had to be done: drive the shark back to deep water, or shoot it? Douglas was convinced that neither could. The end of Gibraltarism would be the feast of the shark on all Asia and Europe, he argued. U.S. forces, he said, are the key to West Europe's resistance. "If we refuse [to help], they . . . may indeed throw in the sponge...
...about Asia? Douglas turned to the other alternative. He called it the "Protect Europe but Not Asia" position, and he attributed its strength to "the councils of the executive Government and a number of able publicists." This school, he said, would let the shark gobble Asia and, with it, the Middle East and Africa. "They are resigned to this because they believe that we and Western Europe do not have the strength to defend both Asia and Western Europe . . . For Western Europe, it is said, is the vital seat of power and the only permanent head for the Russian serpent...
Pinoculus thinks this is a wonderful life ("0 quam dulcis vita!"), until he is turned into a donkey. Later, after being thrown into the sea to drown and being swallowed by a terrible shark ("Ehi, mihi misero," he wails in the black stomach), he finally gets back home and, as a reward for his general goodness, turns into a boy. "Oh," says Pinoculus, "how ridiculous I was when I was a puppetQuam deridiculus apparui, donee pupulus fueram...