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...Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is by no means a staid biography. It explodes many of the myths that we have come to associate with Columbus, yet it does so in a light-hearted vein. Columbus did not have to convince the authorities that the world was round (they had known it long before); the story of Columbus and his egg was probably a figment of the imagination of a later writer; it is untrue that the invention of the astrolabe enabled Columbus to discover America--he didn't know how to use it then. Professor Morison can write beautiful...
...second issue of Trend has both the originality and pertinence, requisite for successful undergraduate literary effort, and subscribers may rejoice that the publication has not fallen before the "Sophomore Jinx." Improved in appearance and more experimental in context, this copy is a worthy complement to its sloppier but more staid predecessor...
...Little, Brown's staid conference room is a framed scrawl: "Please pay my Pa $100 on account and oblige, Yours truly, L. M. Alcott...
...might add also that we are not "wild and woolly" but very staid and home-loving...
...Thanks to C.N.A.C.'s Bond for corrections on carrying war materials and on the name of the pilot who flew a spare DC2 wing (no other being available) to the hiding place of a crippled DC-3. But for staid and home-loving people iron-tough Operative Bond and his mates certainly do run a wild & woolly airline...