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...Adventure of Sail 1520-1914 by Captain Donald Macintyre, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N. 256 pages. Random House. $25. Far more sea-and eyeworthy than the usual splendiferous, spanker-sized boat book, in part because it offers longish selections from the writings of Conrad, James Cook, Lord Nelson, Richard Dana, George Anson and others. More notable, though, is the broad range of paintings and illustrations, and the fact that whoever did the captions miraculously knew a lot about things like rigging-and caption writing...
...Life and Destiny of Isak Dinesen by Frans Lasson and Clara Svendsen. Illustrated. 227 pages. Random House. $15. Hundreds of pictures of the author and dozens of her family, friends, pets, houses, manuscripts and even book jackets. What is desperately missing from this reverential literary curiosity is any sense of the vitality of its subject. Isak Dinesen's writing was mercurial, elaborate and passionate. Her life was filled with tragedy and long illness as well as with adventure. Her husband was the model for Hemingway's Francis Macomber; her great love, Denys Finch-Hatton...
...RISING SUN: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE, 1936-1945 by John Toland. 954 pages. Random House...
...random poll conducted by the CRIMSON last night, students suggested a number of possible reasons for the renewal of the bombing, but few had any definite idea of what to do about...
...designated a Cancer (sign of the tenacious, motherly and easily influenced), the change is eminently logical. The new line-up makes him a Gemini, "as might be expected, perhaps, of one who writes fiction and poetry by choice and edits scientific reports for a living." Other personalities, selected "at random" for proof that they are just as at home in the traditional horoscope, include such ''hardly wishy-washy" Ariens as Warren Beatty, Debbie Reynolds and Schmidt's brother, Jack (obviously better off as "strongwilled, ambitious" Pisceans). Robert Schumann, Prince Philip and Schmidt's son, Sherwood, oldtime...