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...keeps growing, but for the past year and a half Jim Rathbun has had to work alone. Tom Smith was wounded in Korea, Gantt was transferred to St. Louis. Rathbun will probably be sent to Camp Lejeune, N.C. in September. But even though it makes his wife a "map widow," he is going ahead with his charts. The corporation has already blocked out the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Morehead City, N.C. Wind, weather and enemy gunfire notwithstanding, the partners hope some day to cover every fishing area in the U.S. Rathbun still has a minor gripe: charting fish keeps...
...Bomba accepted them as their own. Women dropped in to offer help and ask advice; children picked up French words to impress them; during the black winter nights a couple of young men, apparently loafing around the sisters' hut, kept an eye peeled for obstreperous drunks. One widow with six children spoke for the whole community when she told how she felt about the nuns: "When I see them come in to help me with the washing or cooking, I know I'm not alone any more. Up until now I've seen nuns and priests only...
...novel. Kingfishers Catch Fire, is a Book-of-the-Month Club choice for June. It tells the story of Sophie Ward, a 35-year-old Englishwoman who has kept her looks, but whose brains have always been somewhat scattered. Left a widow in India with two children and a tiny pension, Sophie decides not to go home to the austere safety of Britain but to rough it in the Vale of Kashmir, where the scenery is breathtaking and the people are delightfully unspoiled. When her small daughter Teresa hears about this, she makes a face, because she would much rather...
...Elizabeth's life was Thomas, Lord Seymour, lord high admiral of England. (According to some history books, Tom was an unprincipled wolf who tried to seduce the princess in order to maneuver his way toward the throne.) But there were complications: Seymour was already married-to Catherine Parr, widow of Elizabeth's father, King Henry VIII. The movie makes further complications by picturing Ned Seymour, the Protector Somerset, as a villain plotting to rule England by force and terror instead of by the will of the people. Ned had his brother's relations with Elizabeth investi gated...
...fund was established by Mrs. Etta Dana, widow of the late Myer Dana, ex-director of several Boston Jewish organizations...