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...dedicated Communist, is a matchless interplay of ruthlessness and guile. Before he was nine, in the central Viet Nam province of Nghean, Ho was carrying messages for his father's anti-French underground.* In 1911 he shipped out of Indo-China as a cabin boy on a French vessel, so that he could learn the foreign techniques of revolution and "come back to help my countrymen." He was not yet a Marxist, but already showed signs of an ascetic, fanatic single-mindedness...
...almost wholly from that dialogue--often stiff and opaque--that Archibald has fashioned his play. He might better have interpolated passages in which James lights his characters as he seldom does through their words. On such passages the reader relies above all in regard to the "frail vessel" of James' heroine. Without assurances of Isabel's wit and sensitivity, he could find no tragedy in the end of her independence--her longing to embrace life and soar on her imagination--in the prison of a marriage based on hatred and convention. The Isabel of her words alone seems only...
...find it in 1611. Norway's famed Roald Amundsen made a trip across in the 47-ton yacht Gjöa in 1905; the 80-ton Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch (TIME, Aug. 2), commanded by Mountie Superintendent Henry A. Larsen, in 1942 became the first vessel to make the passage from west to east. But both Amundsen and Larsen sailed through Prince of Wales Strait, detouring around the broader, more direct but more northerly western exit: fog-shrouded, ice-choked McClure Strait...
...with great interest the . . . picture ... of the battle between the U.S.S. Constitution and H.M.S. Guerriere, and [TIME'S story of] the subsequent fate of the former vessel. The captain of the British ship, who later became Admiral Dacres, was my great-great-grandfather. After the British ship had been captured, he, together with the remainder of the officers and men, was taken to Boston, where he spent some time on parole before returning to England. According to his letters . . . now in the possession of my family, he enjoyed very much his enforced stay in the United States, and almost...
...Golden Bear, a 546-ft.. 22.500-ton Mariner-class freighter, is the first major private vessel built on the West Coast in 25 years. The launching was also a high watermark for Pacific Far East Lines: though only eight years old. Pacific Far East has already passed American President Lines as the largest U.S. flag line on routes from Los Angeles and San Francisco to the Far East...