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...having to worry about earning a living. Shortly after their marriage, he wrote a collection of lyrics entitled Diario de un poeta recién casado (Diary of a Newlywed Poet), one of his finest works. That same productive year (1917) he published his most famous book, Platero y Yo (Silvery and I), a series of prose-poems telling of his walks in town and country with an amiable, silver-grey donkey. It is one of the great classics of modern Spanish literature, required reading for schoolchildren all over Latin America...
Belay That Yo-Yo. The Navy was still trying to protect the Marines on Guadalcanal and gain control of the South Pacific when Burke was assigned to command Destroyer Squadron 23, which operated with Rear Admiral "Tip" Merrill's cruiser Task Force 39. Typically, Burke first set about building morale, christening DesRon 23 the "Little Beavers" after a comic-strip character, and making a deal with Merrill's well-stocked cruisers for tons of ice cream. He ran a taut ship with an easy hand. One of the few public reprimands he ever handed out was when...
...Lonely Hunter. In Wesson, Miss., the Enterprise carried a classified ad: "I am going to sell everything I can and will sell cheap. I have many odds and ends that will be a help to many as everything is so expensive. I have jewelry galore, a beautiful yo-yo bedspread that won first prize at the fair. Hoping I can sell out to go where I can be with someone, thanking one and all in advance...
Just passed a racer. Yo ho, look at us roll. What did he say, Ralph? He lost a wheel? Those are the breaks...
...There's Route 9. Less than twelve miles to go. Here's where we make time. Yo ho! Look at us roll down hill. There's a jeep alongside of us. What did they say? Forty miles an hour. My word, this is dangerous. Ralph, don't try to pass the truck. Ralph, he dragging us. I can't watch...