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...saltiest sailor aboard, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, chose this moment to admit that he had never been properly initiated. He confessed that in 1898, when he first crossed the line as a midshipman on the U.S.S. Oregon, he had bought off the shellbacks with a keg of beer - a custom then permitted on naval vessels...
...BATS FLY AT DUSK - A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). Private Detective Bertha Cool, minus her diminutive partner, Donald Lam, though absent from scene, supplies the right answers to both murders, a spot of forgery, and other villainy. An exceptionally clever plot, much lusty humor - and Bertha Cool, saltiest of female sleuths...
...John Carroll is a hairy-chested man with the saltiest vocabulary in Columbia County, N.Y. Born in a railroad car in Wichita-his father was trekking to California to settle as a cattle rancher-Painter Carroll studied for a spell at San Francisco's old Mark Hopkins Art Academy, finished two years of an engineering course at the University of California (playing fullback on the football team). On the side he punched cattle. After six months in a Cincinnati art school he joined the Navy in World...
Caustic without being bitter is Boston's white-thatched, bow-tied Porter Sargent. The saltiest commentator on U. S. education, from which he makes his living but for which he has a certain amused contempt, Porter Sargent prefaces his famed annual catalogue of 4,000 private schools with his shrewd opinions on men and affairs. Last week, in the 22nd edition of his Handbook of Private Schools, he threw most of his custard pies at the two most popular favorites of U. S. higher education -President James Bryant Conant of Harvard and President Robert Maynard Hutchins of University...
...with jailbirds with such names as "Socks" Lanza and "Scutch"' Indelicate, but with harboring, as his chauffeur, a notorious fugitive from justice named Charles Falci. It was as detailed and exciting a story as any other installment in the gangbusting radio series that had made Lawyer Dewey the saltiest campaigner in recent New York history. But hard-shelled Boss Marinelli, whose term as county clerk was due to expire January 1 anyway, neither resigned nor answered the Dewey charges...