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...projected tetralogy. The author's next works allayed all fears. The Fabulous Riverboat gives Burton some delightful traveling companions. He and the grownup Alice Liddell Hargreaves (child model for Lewis Carroll's Alice) meet a cynical fellow named Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who constructs a side-wheel steamer to voyage upriver. The second volume also introduces Cyrano de Bergerac and England's King John, who attempted to steal the throne from his brother Richard in real life and who hijacks Clemens' boat on the Riverworld. But while these two books and the third volume, The Dark Design...
DIED. Hilmar Reksten, 82, once one of the largest operators of independent oil tankers in the world; of cancer; in Bergen, Norway. He parlayed a modest 1929 investment in a cargo steamer into a tanker fleet worth $600 million. His fortunes ebbed when the 1973 Arab oil embargo caused a worldwide slump and left eleven of his twelve supertankers lying idle. In 1979 he was acquitted on charges of evading income taxes on $89 million in foreign earnings. Ironically, he made this year's Guinness Book of World Records for paying a larger percentage of his annual income...
Their intimacy, like others in the book, is "set in motion" by this collision. Christian soon knows that "there could be no outcome to such activities but marriage." Later, another couple: "the ferry rocked in the wash of a small steamer. Ted and Caro were flung against each other and did not depart." This is Hazzard's world, "the long accident of life...
...masque theme was "The Father of Our Country," a number of Lake Shore socialites appeared as penises or sperm. No one proposes calling out a SWAT team to deal with this sort of whoopee-cushion wit. It is not sullenly antisocial, like the blaring radios the size of steamer trunks that adolescents haul onto public buses to cook up a small pot of community rage, or the occasional pistols that got waved in gas lines...
...near by, Carter asked Civiletti whether it would be all right for him to talk to his press secretary about the charge. Civiletti said it would not, so Carter waved Powell away as he listened to the rest of the story. At 4 a.m., two FBI agents boarded the steamer and interrogated Powell, who not only denied the story but said he had never even been to Studio 54. In Washington, Jordan also denied the charge. He had gone to Studio 54 for about an hour once last year, he told the FBI, but not in April and certainly...