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London peopled a whole world with semibarbarians-bucko mates on tramp steamers, sealers in the North Pacific. Seattle waterfront toughs, stiffs riding the rods of Western freight cars-all larger than life, and, because of that, something less than real. This scissors-and-paste collection of his work (with the important dogs missing) is a valuable book for U.S. readers -who have begun to forget London's parables of violence, partly because they see the realities of violence all over the world...
...level than under the rose. At any rate, as the camera finds him, Sanders is enthusiastically engaged in selling his own brother to the secret police in return for a passage to America. Arrived in New York, he steals a rich man's wallet from the tramp (Yvonne de Carlo) who stole it first, finds a draft for $20,000 tucked inside. Forging an indorsement, he takes a plunge in the stock market, clears $200,000 in a matter of hours, pays for the bad check with a good one. And so he finds himself, almost before the customs...
...flag along the rutted road to Appomattox: "Now smash 'em, I tell you, smash 'em"; Farragut, fabulous admiral, lashed to the mast in Mobile Bay: "Damn the torpedoes! Go ahead." Back of the epic lines echo the epic songs: Battle Hymn of the Republic, Maryland, My Maryland, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Dixie, Marching Through Georgia, Tenting Tonight, and, most popular of all, a tender Victorian love song called Lorena...
...case, Marilyn Monroe's hip-flipping, lip-twitching, frolicsomely sensual figure is the latest curve on the path of erotic progress that has led Hollywood from the slithering vamp to the good-natured tramp. Her physical proportions (37-23-37) have become a vital statistic, and the poor little waif has become a big business; her last five pictures have grossed more than $50 million. Moreover, there is solid evidence that she knows how to run her business...
Hong Kong, which Author James Michener calls "the pearl of Asia." From it's high hills visitors can look north across the border to the barren red hills of Communist China; they can spend an evening at the stylized Chinese opera, tramp up and down narrow "ladder" streets and take a 40-mile boat ride down the coast to Portuguese Macao, which will give Americans their best look at China...