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...Love with the Boss. Unlike the Caine, the destroyer-minesweeper Zane, to which Wouk was assigned, swept mines aplenty-off the Marshalls, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, the Marianas, Guam, Saipan, Tinian. In two years Wouk was successively assistant communications officer, communications officer, ship's first lieutenant and navigator. Later he was reassigned to another minesweeper, the Southard, saw action in six Pacific campaigns. He rose to executive officer, had been recommended to become captain of his ship when it was wrecked in a typhoon at Okinawa...
...night late in 1944, when the Zane put in at San Pedro for repairs, Lieut. Wouk and a few fellow officers went out on the town. After all the bars had closed, one of the men remembered a birthday party being given for the boss of a file clerk he knew. "So we all barged in. I made a date with one of the file clerks for lunch the next day. All through lunch the girl raved about her boss, this beautiful, witty, talented creature. Naturally I went back to her office to take a second look, and I made...
...accustomed to the starving writer who did some of his most important work bargaining in hock shops and died broke, e.g., O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe. It was also accustomed to the spectacularly rich writer who made a fortune with his gold-plated typewriter, e.g., James Hilton and Zane Grey. However true or false these extreme images may have been, they describe few living U.S. authors. In his Democracy in America (1835-1840), Alexis de Tocqueville said: "In democratic times the public frequently treat authors as kings do their courtiers; they enrich and despise them ..." Few American authors...
Died. William MacLeod Raine, 83, since Zane Grey's death in 1939 the undisputed No. 1 writer of westerns (TIME, July 19); of a heart ailment; in Denver. London-born Fictioneer Raine moved to Arkansas when he was ten, turned out 80 unpretentious novels (19 million copies sold in 12 languages) chronicling the exploits of unpretentious cowboys in the old West he so well remembered...
...James P. Callahan, William J. Cowperthwaite, Julian F. Davies, Robert H. Dean, Dana H. Getchell, Alex H. Haegler, Berkeley D. Johnson Jr., Stephen J. Joyce, Winthrop Knowlton, Rustin C. McIntosh, Juan M. Rodriguez, Robert Sobel, Roger C. Taylor, Charles W. Ufford, Jr., Marvin Weiss, John S. Whiting, Craig K. Zane, Jay W. Hearst...