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FROM a narrow, blue sea-chest stuffed with maps, tall log-books, cash-books, account-books, diaries, and musty bills of lading. Robert Coffin has gleaned much of the material for his true tale of the voyages of Captain John Pennell and wife, Abby, of Casco Bay, Maine. From these documents he has constructed a simple New England odyssey of a Down-East family who made their home upon the sea and whose travels in a tall-masted clipper took them to every corner of a world which was much broader in 1840 than it is today...
...yard Eli quick kick put Harvard back to her own 21 from where Macdonald kicked just past midfield. Again the Eli coffin holed the Crimson with a kick to the 17. A Macdonald pass deep in Crimson territory was then intercepted by Whiteman and the Ellis were in scoring position on Harvard...
...COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS-Eric Ambler -Knopf ($2). An English detectifiction writer sets out to trace the career of a shady Greek fig-packer whose stabbed body he saw in a Turkish morgue. Author Ambler, international traveler, scripter for Alexander Korda, artfully interweaves spidery intrigue and murder mystery...
...fact the margin of victory revolved on the superior and sensational kicking of Princeton's Bob Peters, who kept the Harvard offense beautifully boxed with coffin corner down deep in Crimson territory...
CAPTAIN ABBY AND CAPTAIN JOHN-.Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan ($2.50). Mr. Coffin, who loves his native Maine, made this "story of a plain Yankee home that went to sea" out of "the bare bones of fine and brave and godly living." The bones: logs of the voyages of Maine Sea Captain John Pennell; three diaries minutely inscribed by his wife Abby; her letters to her mother. Compiler Coffin appropriately fleshes these bones in hearty, homey, dash-a-tear language...