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...take me to the five-and-dime and buy me a ribbon for my hair or a plastic duck to sail in the bath. I limited my life to him." So says Meta Carpenter Wilde, 69, recalling her 18-year romance with Novelist William Faulkner. From the day they met in 1935, when she was a script girl and he an impoverished, hard-drinking writer trying to earn some money in the movies, the pair kept their passion one of Hollywood's quietest affairs. Now Meta is telling all, both in November's Los Angeles magazine...
...Kosinski, a National Book Award winner in 1969 for his novel "Steps," said he was honoring the Forum audience with his third public appearance since burrowing into his apartment four months ago to work on his eighth novel, leaving only to "eat lunch in a restaurant and for Operation Sail...
...Shannon, the short, freckled bosun, cups his hands around his mouth and bellows, 'All hands on deck! Sail stations!' His words echo across the deserted, fog-wet decks of the Eagle, and men come scrambling up ladders and out of doorways. Dozens pull themselves up into the rigging, swarming 150 ft. above the deck to loosen the tightly furled sails. 'Loose the foreroyal!' cries Shannon. 'Loose the main royal! Man the fore t'gallants'l sheets and halyard there! Look alive, deck!' The sails begin to drop like curtains at a play...
...good deal of archaic expertise is involved. As one Coast Guard cadet said, "You're up in the rigging in a storm, the sail's flapping in your face, it's pitch dark, and somebody yells to clear the foreroyal buntlines. You can't go look it up in your sailing manual...
...tall ships and raise the first gulp of the day. Hung athwart the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and visible far at sea, the superflag measures 193 ft. by 366 ½ ft., bigger by half than a football field, weighs 1 ½ tons and is constructed like a sail to weather all winds. It was Betsy Rossed in the loft of Marblehead, Mass., Yachtsman-Sailmaker Ted Hood. The grand notion, costing $45,000, was conceived by Len Silverfine, 39, a teacher in Vermont, whose father was a Russian immigrant, and Pierre Leduc, 34, a French-Canadian advertising man from Montreal...