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Praising his gallantry under fire, a French naval court-martial cleared Captain Guillaume Rons Cristophe Marie Joseph Michel de Toulouse-Lautrec, commander of the destroyer Sirocco (lost at Dunkirk) and cousin of the late great, dwarfed Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, acidulous painter of fin-de-siecle France...
From East and West came the cream of the three-year-old crop: Colonel Edward Bradley's Bimelech (winner of the Preakness and Belmont Stakes), Ethel Mars's Gallahadion (who outran Big Bim to win the Kentucky Derby), Charles T. Fisher's Sirocco (who beat Bimelech by ten lengths in the Arlington Classic). But it rained, Big Bim was scratched and Charles S. Howard's Mioland, pride of the West Coast, made the other two look like plough horses. Splashing lickety-split through the mud, Mioland led all the way, finished three lengths in front...
...SIROCCO - Ralph Random House...
...stories in Sirocco follow the pattern of those experiences. With superb characterizations, plenty of dash, touches of sympathy, they add up to something more than Hemingway's bloodlettings. Bates writes as movingly about a Fascist woman doctor as about a Loyalist scout, most movingly about humble, non-partisan farmers and fishermen ten years before...
Most skillful is his use of symbols: in a story about the birth of a boy, fishermen launch a boat on the night sea; in a story set in conquered territory, a farmer carefully yokes his oxen; when the sirocco blows, a well-organized phalanx of shore-folk wade into the heavy sea to save men who are washed overboard in landing their boats...