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Author De Hartog, a sure-enough seafaring man, began his nautical career at ten, got to be a brass polisher on an Amsterdam tugboat. He polished up his languages too-so well that he is now the author of a bestselling novel in Dutch and a current Broadway play, The Fourposter, in English...
...ocean bottom quite literally, as a deep-sea diver, and there the lure of death almost claims his spirit. But at last a sensible miss hauls him up again, buffs the dull film of mysticism from his uniform buttons, and restores him to life-in this case, another tugboat...
...tugboat accident on the Frankfort River...
...qualifying heat of motorboating's classic Gold Cup race at Seattle last week, Driver Orth Mathiot barely managed to make the minimum 65 m.p.h. speed in his blue-grey Quicksilver, a sleek, new, 31-foot hydroplane. Devil-may-care Mathiot, a Portland, Ore. tugboat operator, was not really expecting Quicksilver to win the cup. Neither were Seattle's boat-racing fans, who turned out at nearby Lake Washington to cheer their hometown entry, Slo-Mo-Shun V, which set two records in the first of three final runs -97.826 m.p.h. for a three-mile lap, 91.766 m.p.h...
...other cronics are there, still playing cards in Cesar's saloon--Escartefigue, the "retired" tugboat captain, M. Brun, the apothecary who will always be reminded, when he errs, that "he certainly is from Lyons!" They are a welcome sight...