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ROBERT W. CAPPS of Honolulu, a retired Hawaiian Pineapple Co. official, recently wrote to Advertising Director John McLatchie: "I am reclining on our lanai, looking out toward the surf . . . and wondering just who is John McLatchie? Is this another synthetic like Betty Crocker, or is he really a person...
...reply in the same genial mood, John McLatchie waited for his Florida vacation, composed a letter while listening to the surf at Palm Beach. Then he sent it to Capps with a picture (see cut) to prove that he is not "synthetic...
...photography, the travelogue scenery, and some distractingly phony sets, to carry the plot forward. The photography can be helpful in the large scenes like the clambake or in the choreography numbers. But when MacRae sings the Soliloquy he is lost, if not drowned, in the midst of miles of surf, sand, and rock formations...
...with $50 worth of groceries in tow. She gave interviews from her bed, her hair like a black dustmop, her bag-rimmed eyes like the burning tips of cigars. Sometimes she actually lit up a small cigar and slunk about the room, her Magnanimous bosom heaving like a passionate surf as she flung out a flood of Italian. When informed that her first U.S. picture would be shown on widescreen, Magnani publicly sneered: "Poof! Widescreen!" When TV came with opulent offers, she recoiled: "Weel I have to hold a bowl of cereal een my hand...
Lashed by the surf, lacerated by shore ice, alternately drenched and desiccated, the tiny inhabitants of the marine demimonde learn to live dangerously and adapt to the challenges of intertidal life. From a thousand examples, Author Carson evokes all the moods of the edge of the sea and of its inhabitants-strange, ugly, beautiful, bizarre. Nature's grace, order and mystery flow through her book like an underwater ballet. Again Author Carson has shown her remarkable talent for catching the life breath of science on the still glass of poetry...