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...generally good, if not graciously served. Gently swaying hammocks on the Norwegian Christian Radich (below left) provide less jarring sleep for trainees than do officers' bunks, which are usually fixed; cadets on the same ship happily trim each other's hair. Members of the British schooner Sir Winston Churchill's all-women crew face the inevitable galley chores (bottom left), while men aboard the Christian Radich try to keep fit with rigorous daily calisthenics on the main deck...
Lynn Rosellini, 29, was recommended by the Washington Star for a Pulitzer Prize for her four-part series on homosexuality in sports, a topic male reporters have generally avoided. Mary Garber, 60, has been covering sports for the Winston-Salem Journal since 1944, and colleagues agree that she is the toughest interviewer in town...
...others, used as a training ship for naval cadets. The oldest is the American barkentine Gazela Primeiro, built in 1883 as a fishing vessel and now owned by the Philadelphia Maritime Museum. While most of the tall ships are being manned by male cadets, the smaller topsail schooner Sir Winston Churchill, owned by England's Sail Training Association, is carrying 42 female sail trainees. In their massed splendor, the ships suggest another Masefield image: "They mark our passage as a race of men,/ Earth will not see such ships as those again...
...serving tea at the Bellamys and moonlighting as a bus conductor. But lately she has been embroiled in World War II, filming The Eagle Has Landed, in which she plays a British WAC gone awry aiding Michael Caine, a German colonel, in a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. How could the prim Rose of Upstairs switch from kitchenling to quisling? Easy, she says: "I'd do it to anyone for the money...
...brilliantly insufferable crank, Mark Rampion, in Point Counter Point. Political debts have been paid too. One of the first romans à clef, Madeleine de Scudéry's Artamène; ou Le Grand Cyrus (1649), encoded in fiction the court of Louis XIV. H.G. Wells savaged Winston Churchill under the cover of Rupert Catskill in Men Like Gods...