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...should be blubbery and boring. Instead, it is one of the best organized and stylish big books of the year. The illustrations, including some deft Japanese watercolors, inevitably include scenes of indescribable carnage, but more often they illuminate more attractive aspects of the whale's world or the whaleman's work and art. The Whale covers everything from Ambergris to Zooplankton, but has no index-for which some editor should be harpooned...
...Nicklaus patiently retooled his game, aiming for the kind of versatility that would allow him to play under any conditions, on any kind of course. He worked off the 25 excess pounds that had his fellow pros calling him "Ohio Fats" (in college, his nicknames were "Blob-O" and "Whaleman." He also had to learn to adjust to the nomadic life of a pro: until last week, when he decided to take a few days off and fish for trout, Jack had been home for only 17 days since January. When he wearily pulled up outside his modest, green-shuttered...
American whalemen knew the albatross as the "goney" bird long before the U.S. Navy had any interest in the Pacific. There is a whaleman's song entitled The Wings of a Goney, from the logbook of the whaling bark Ocean Rover on a voyage made in 1859 that starts...
...rich in fiction. Besides good installments of "Sweet Bells Out of Tune" and "Benefits Forgot" there are three or four interesting short stories, The Balcony Stories" the best of which is "The Miracle Chapel," "The Professor's Aberration" and others. A very interesting article is "Stray Leaves from a Whaleman's Log"; it is a collection of whaling stories with a description of the general methods of whaling. An article worthy of the attention of everyone is "A Voice of Russia" by Pierre Botkine, the secretary of the Russian Legation at Washington. In a few words Mr. Botkine shows...
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