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...SAIL Ho! (288 pp.)-Sir James Bisset, written in collaboration with P. R. Stephensen-Criterion...
There was no such next time, and young Bisset graduated from sail to steam, eventually (1944) became the gold-encrusted commodore of the Cunard-White Star Line and successively master of the world's greatest sea queens, Mary and Elizabeth. Now 75 and living in well-fed Australian retirement, Sir James Gordon Partridge Bisset sits in the lee of the longboat and spins a salty yarn of life in an oldtime square-rigger. On his first voyage, Bisset was seasick. The mate gave him an old-fashioned cure: a pannikin of sea water poured down his protesting gullet. Though...
...then headed back to their desks to alert their forces-all forces. The U.S. military establishment, worldwide, was put into a state of "improved readiness." Leaves were canceled. The Navy was put on a four-hour alert; i.e., all ships not in major repair were to be ready to sail on four hours' notice. The Air Force's Strategic Command needed no particular word. Said one high U.S. officer about SAC: "It was ready, brother, believe...
...Henley Royal Regatta on the River Thames, the University of Washington crew, whose trip to Britain was financed by voluntary subscription from loyal supporters, launched a gleaming cedar shell bought for them by U.S. admirers. But the long-legged Huskies, set to sail off with the Grand Challenge Cup, overlooked the heavily muscled Russians, who brought the same crew that narrowly lost to Cornell last year. Through a torrential thunderstorm Russia's Trud Club crew chopped off a snappy 37 strokes to the minute that gave them an immediate three-quarter-length lead. The Huskies started at 38, flagged...
...tribute of seven young men and seven maidens to Crete, where they are to be put into a maze called the labyrinth and devoured by a fearsome creature, half-man, half-bull, called the Minotaur. Either by lot or insistence, Theseus becomes one of the seven youths and sets sail for Crete. There he wins the love of Ariadne, a Cretan princess, who gives him a magic sword with which to kill the Minotaur and a spool of cord with which to thread his way back out of the maze. On the way home to Athens, Theseus puzzlingly abandons Ariadne...