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...Lakonia's position as 180 miles northwest of Madeira. Already, thick, billowing smoke was seeping from under the door of the barbershop, where the fire apparently had started. And by now, the flames had burned their way through the floor. So thick was the smoke that Passenger George Chapman was forced to grab a gas mask as he tried to force his way below to his sleeping three-year-old son Geoffrey. "I thought if I had to die, I wanted to die with our baby," Chapman says. "Halfway down, I saw an engineer coming up through the smoke...
...diving, Harvard's Dan Mooney, at a severe disadvantage away from home, will pit his silk-smooth style against Navy ace Mike Chapman. In the back-stroke, Henry Whelchel will face a stiff fight from both Tim Beard and Bob Johnson...
...domestic career up in lustful, hypocritical, murderous New England. The sequels that followed prolonged the speculation; if they weren't written on the kitchen table, how could they be so smeared with jam? Irving Wallace gained a certain respectability by pretending that his fat novels (The Chapman Report, The Prize) were based on research-research that delved into the odd aberrations of sex ual surveyors and Nobel prizewinners. Now both are back with new novels-one, at least, with a difference...
Since anthropologists are just as entitled as Kinsey-Chapman investigators to discuss sex in solemnly clinical detail, Wallace has obviously come upon a literary genre that may proliferate indefinitely...
Despite his vigilance, Frommer occasionally errs. In Stockholm, the three-masted sailing ship Af Chapman is a highly recommended stopover for students on a Starvation Budget, with no mention of the fact that its hostel regulations impose a rigid 11 p.m. curfew. Conversely, Vienna's list includes at least a couple of hotels that generally rent rooms to streetwalkers and their clients, and a drinking spot that is an underworld rendezvous frequently surveyed by police. Nevertheless, says the manager of London's truly familyish Arundale Hotel, "This book has been the biggest aid to Britain since the Marshall...