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Fiqhter Turned Quaker. But Ned Coxere had no patriotic scruples against fighting for whichever flag he chanced to be sailing under. He fought now for King, now for Parliament, in the English Civil War. When he was a prisoner aboard a Spanish man o' war, one of his captors "looks down the scuttle where we were and called in Spanish to us 'There is good news: Cromwell is dead. There is a great feast in hell.' This . . . was good news to the Spaniards, for he made them cheap." On another voyage, from the Barbary Coast, his ship...
...News of Ned. Editor E. H. W. Meyerstein has doctored Coxere's prose to a point where it is comprehensible, but he has let it retain its near-Biblical simplicity. A good sample is Coxere's account of his coming home, accompanied by an old neighbor, after years at sea, still wearing a Flemish sailor's clothes...
Loss of Face. In Tulsa, Okla., Traffic Patrolman Ned Fanning blew his whistle at a woman driver, got angry when she "made an awful face," made one right back, threw his jaw out of place...
Last week she sang song cycles by two great French song writers, Francis Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen, and two songs by a 28-year-old Austrian, Gottfried von Einem, five by Paul Bowles and several by such unknown Americans as Everett B. Helm, Bela Wilda and Ned Rorem. Her voice was limited in range and occasionally harsh in the high notes, but as always, her interpretations were intelligent and distinguished by restraint...
Walt Coulson and John Fiorentino, ends; Ned Dewey, tackle; Emil Drvaric and Nick Rodis, guards; and Jack Fisher, center, were named to the all-star line. Captain Oleo Odonnell and Vince Moravec were singled out in the backfield...