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...Overboard. Oddly enough, Heyerdahl had no trouble in raising his crew of five, all but one of whom were landlubbers and all itching to go. Herman Watzinger, an engineer, and Ethnologist Bengt Danielsson invited themselves when they heard about the stunt. Knut Haugland, Tor-stein Raaby and guitar-playing Painter Eric Hesselberg all jumped at the chance when they were asked. There is no indication, in the book at least, that they regretted it for a moment...
JOURNEY INTO THE SELF: BEING THE LETTERS, PAPERS AND JOURNALS OF LEO STEIN (331 pp.)-Edited by Edmund Fuller-Crown...
...Gertrude Stein was merely Leo Stein's tag-along sister for the first half of their lives: in Pittsburgh, where they were born; in Vienna and California, where they were brought up, and in Paris, where they went to live. Until they were in their 30s, it was Leo who was the clever one. He knew about ideas and he knew about pictures, and he told Gertrude. Then, to Leo's astonishment, Gertrude began to turn into a genius. People began to take her inspired gobbledygook seriously, and she began to buy Picasso's new cubist paintings...
...another chorus to the celebrated [Gertrude] Stein song, and say that a Rose is a Waugh is a Wilde; which is a harrowing enough hybrid for anyone...
...many a listener was concerned, budding Composer Kupferman, a man with a freshening sense of melody, could climb right up near Composer-Critic Thomson (Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All) when it came to setting Stein to song...