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...roaring forties." In Moby Dick, Melville described how the Pequod "sharply bowed to the blast" in these storm-tossed waters, with "showers of silver chips" flying over her bulwarks. In the voyages of the clippers, a crew of more than three dozen seasoned hands was needed to keep a vessel from disaster in the roaring forties...
...papers in order to get a job, the Coast Guard learned that he had been an active Communist Party member for at least twelve years. After two hearings, the Coast Guard denied McBride's application because it was not satisfied that his "presence on board a merchant vessel of the U.S. would not be inimical to the security of the U.S." Claiming denial of due process, McBride argued in Federal Court that there was absolutely no evidence that he was even likely to engage in espionage or sabotage. Nevertheless, none of McBride's constitutional rights were infringed, ruled...
...VESSEL OF WRATH, by Robert Lewis Taylor. Although assorted biographers of Carry Nation have tried before to do justice to the lady with the hatchet, Taylor is the first to succeed-with a book that is as irreverent as it is readable...
...VESSEL OF WRATH by Robert Lewis Taylor. 373 pages. New American Library...
...Vessel of Wrath is a splendid tribute to its destructive subject, even though Parodist Taylor is outmatched. Carry's memory is secure from parody. She was a woman so extravagantly beyond the normal pale that even her avowed enemies, the whisky dispensers, had trouble believing she was real. Ultimately they became her most devoted allies, hiring bands to accompany her on lecture tours, subscribing to her house organ, The Smasher's Mail, and cheerfully providing the beer kegs that she mounted on street corners all over the country...