Word: tweed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ROBINSON CRUSOE, USN - as told to Blake Clark by George Ray Tweed -Whittlesey House...
...story of George Ray Tweed, the Navy radioman, who spent two and a half years on Jap-held Guam (TIME, Aug. 21) is as packed with adventure, suspense and endurance as Robinson Crusoe's own. In many respects Crusoe's 20th-Century counterpart went Crusoe one better. Tweed had no handy wrecked ship from which to salvage an "abundance of hatchets," nails, knives and other carpenter's tools. The only tool he had to build some of his furniture was a machete...
Hare & Hounds. Unlike Crusoe, Tweed was a fugitive as well as a castaway, and his story is a harrowing tale of hare & hounds. Never for a moment did the Japs relax their hunt for him and the five other U.S. servicemen who chose to hide on the 225 sq. mi. island rather than surrender with the rest on Dec. 10, 1941. Time after time Tweed abandoned a hideaway only minutes before a Jap hunting party arrived...
After several weeks in the bush ("a devilish shrub . . . chest high and thickly matted together, it is covered with sharp thorns half an inch long"), Tweed and his friend Al Tyson moved into a hole in a hillside that was "practically the Waldorf-Astoria." And a native friend brought them a radio. But a search party soon drove them...
Before intermission, "Carousel" is a mediocre folk opera; after intermission it leaves all bounds of reason. The hero, Billy Bigelow, having committed suicide, is led off by two unidentified gentlemen in tweed suits. In spite of his protests he is taken around the front door of heaven and sent in the back way under the "mother of pearly" gates where he meets heaven's janitor dusting off stars. By now reduced to nothing more than a slushy dramatization of the maxim to live your own life regardless of what your parents were or did, "Carousel" concludes with Billy returning...