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with the bridge. The more he thinks about it, the more he wants us to know that the hard life was the fine life, and that if .you have too much good food and good times ashore, you lose an appreciation of what is worth having. So he writes “In the First Watc h" to make us see what a grand life ft was, in the days before the first world war cracked his world. ” » » SHIP'S ENGINEER McFee has been a writing man since 1908, when he published a book about life on an ocean tramp. In 38 years he has hit the best-seller lists with novels and described the sea in memoirs. In 1925 he published “Swallowing the Anchor,” which is a term sailors use to describe retiring and living ashore. Since then he has been a regis- | tered voter in Connecticut lotus eater in Florida during the cold winters,

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Ship's Engineer Tells About Service in Tramp Steamers Before the First World War.

"IN THE FIRST WATCH." By William McFee. New York, Random diction by Mrs. Becker and many,

“MISTER, it was a beautiful life! shellback bosun to Ship's Engineer W illiam McFee, retired,

on passing a bedraggled old sailing ship. And that's the way Engineer McFee feels about his | way. Moreover, he recalls not only |

service in tramp steamers, little 7000-ton hulks, poundin their way across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean before

wireless tied them to the ™

the foc'sle ideas of equality ving.

and a sea,

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said the tough old |

RUT anybody eould see thal Mac's heart was not in this easy |

You'd sav he was well out of that tegxzible life, shuttling from port to port, associating with men of limited mind and vocabulary, trying to please raw-tempéred masters And vou would be wrong. I have seen Engineer McFee tol- |

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Each volume contains an intro-| lillustrations, in black and white land solo.

a keen one and his reminiscences heeled class. are as engrossing as:those of dons)

Magsefield’s sailing days on the Con.

g 'the details of all the engine rooms scraggly farms.

in which he toiled and sweated, | but the cafes he visited in foreign | the romantic episodes | {he met in some of them. There was Juliette,

the litde

| waitress of the Hotel de 1'Univers

at Rouen. Youth, 1h youth!

The young men at sea missed was more skilled than the Kid in "THE WEATHER FOR A |

their friendship with girls, too, and

Tom was on the side” of. big

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By SHERLEY UHL

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Noted Writer Discusses Mandscripts

TOM HORN was a professional, killer for the eattle barons in their | {range wars with migrating settlers and homesteaders at the turn of the century. |

{

money, a gunman for the wellHe disdained the] penurious, small-fry settlers who, to his way of thinking, cluttered up

|the baronial rangelands with their | |

Like those of Billy the Kid, his | counterpart in the southWest (Tom operated in the north-central, west) | [Horn's deeds are legend. Tom career; wasn't as romanticized as Billy’ s—he hasn't appeared with Jane Russell on the screen—but he

the art of sible SXermingbion, |

when they reached a port accepted |

poor substifutes and lost their| ‘BILLY THE KID, in the cold | money. unflattering light of history, was a » » ~ | y - “IN THE FIRST WATCH" is|%rt of goofy, illiterate,’ trigger: cured hors d'oeuvres at the Old literally packed with portraits of happy juvenile delinquent. Horn, seafaring men. on the other hand, was a glib

Forge in Miami Beach only out of courtesy to a landlubber like my- |

self. when he was famished for a an uninteresting one, that also may | [read books, plate of warmed-over tinned corned be because he has an eye for hu- | lionaires.

beef from a ship's galley. ~ » ~ {

I CAN sympathize with McFee's |

If«Mr., McFee says he never met

man character and an understand-

{ing of motives,

What is remarkable is the com-

smoothie who spoke four languages, consorted with mil- | up séme

Mr. Monaghan plows

bedrock lore of the type that won't tant in planning military operations | playwright, SuCCess Was

be found in history books. He gives

satisfaction at getting away from pleteness with which he, a studied us the smell and taste of the Old th t f urban life. e gadgets of urban e. “Men man, accepted the outlook of mari- {West as it molded those who peo- are dependent on proper weather Vassar Student Gots

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|go mad in cities with half a dozen

editions a day,” he says, adding | that “the hugger-mugger of shore |

life destroys the great peace of the | tempt with which he describes the | | sea » |

Unfortunately men go mad at too, if the stories we read count for anything. Certainly men

| association with gentler creatures, that is, women. Even Engineer McFee admits that “designers of ships have occasional attacks of insanity or | sadism” and Scotch freighters are | good things hig Avoid | ” “WE INRERITED the traditions of «a life without the ordinary con-

| trouble with poor gear, loose rivets,

man beings who had to adjust centrie, others old fools, though, on the whole, McFee was lucky in getting along with his shipmates But William McFee was a | strange sort of sailor, | He stood the life at sea, and yet in 'a voyage on a freighter to Venice ‘he read such books as Ruskin's | “Stones of Venice,” Howell's “Ve-|

Fall of the Roman Empire” | books by Schlegel, 8ismondi, Hazlitt | | and Keats,

AT THAT me "H. G. Wells’ {no Bungay” was a sensational best- | seller and he had that and “Antieipations,” too. | When he came off watch he was | supposed to have “turned in,” but | {he wrote for an hour and nobody | on board knew or interfered. “I! was not known as the author of a book and I did not mention it.”

tive engineer of a tramp steamer.

{ » » » | WILLIAM McFEE'S memory is

GAS

Mada spraying, fun {

for

valves, rubber

[-veniences of a jail or a poorhouse,” | he writes, There was plenty of

| themselves to one another, some ec- |

“To-

| McFee was hardly a-representa-

They’ Usable in Many Ways

civilian

ners. » ” »

CHARACTERISTIC is the con-

Englishmen who had cushy jobs on board the yacht of the khedive of ! Egypt, who never went to sea.

They lay all the time in the har- | get bitter and crabbed for want of bor of Alexandria, in-a spick-and-, post-war night riders.

span ship, drawing pay, but, says Mae regretfully, they had come up| the same wav as he, and should have known better. “We were free

as air, by comparison.” ” Md ” THERE is a brief comment on

Joseph Conrad's handling of the plot of “Lord Jim,” which was based on a real incident. Mr. McFee was once in a position | where he could appreciate the dis- | grace that would come to him if

| high seas, not to mention the hu- a ship had a disaster due to his in-|

competence. But the captain who asserted that Conrad had idealized Jim excused the desertion of Jim's ship by its officers and crew. “Who wouldn't?” said the captain. “She didn't sink, and they lost their | | tickets. Not because of the pilgrims, but because of the salvage.” i 8» McFee, too,

AND Mr, is of the

and a load on Jim.

“In real life he |it down with ease.’ In real life, too, “Lord Jim" would have been a report filed away | in some owner's office, never a bril- | llant dream that will haunt us all {our lives. -

New Shipman Novel Prentice-Hall from Natalie Shipman, the manu-| script of a new novel dealing with a woman alcoholic. Entitled “Per-| {chance to Dream.” it was written in {eollaboration with her husband, Gurdon Saltonstall Worcester,

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than they did each other. ~ - ”

His childhood was scarred by civil war raiders and After kickLing around the frontier, he became an Indian scout, living with the | Apaches for years. He chased Geronimo, fought in the Spanish-| | American war, Wwas- a Pinkerton agent and finally a private “livestock qeieetive. 4

{ milieu of violence,

» JUST HOW uy homesteaders | (he ealled them rustlers) he killed | {in this eapaeity is unknown, but

{ Former UU,

| TOM’'S entire life was spent in a i

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Mary Jane Ward author of “The Snake Pit,” discusses the manuscripts of two writers at Indiana university's

current writers’ conference,

April

native of Fairmoung; Ind, Book-of-the-Month

and selection,

Mrs, H, L. Knote, 101 "Woodside ave,

Indianapolis, is at left, and Miss Margaret Ehler of Bluffton is at Monday evening, She will conduct workshops dally through Saturday.

right. Miss. Ward

'A WAR LESSON | ' Forecasting

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By ROBERT W. SWANSON 8. Navy Aerologist

THE IMPORTANCE of weather and accurate forecasting was magnified to its true size during world

war 1I. The weather was as impor-

as were men, ships and supplies. | The functions of many businesses

conditions . . . farmers, fuel deal- | ers, clothing industries, airlines and | many others need accurate adv ance | information on weather. Raymond Yates in “The Weather for a Hobby’ attempts to convey enthusiasm for weather forecastin as a hobby.

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{ book-club choice. Scheduled for “The Miracle of the Bells" is described as “an inspirational novel | in § modern setting.” old author is widely known as a|

Sept

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Its 61-year-

theatrical producer, press agent and

| the award of collegiate g Hilda D. Osterhout of Vassar eolabout modern |

job in describing in much detail Mexico. Tentatively entitled “Feld of old | at low cost from cast-off or second Blood,” the novel based in part on | Miss Osterhout’s student expefiences in Mexico, will be published | next year.

Picture fo Be Made Little attention is devoted in the From "The Snake Pit’

how to make weather instruments |

hand materials. * r ~ ~ WEATHER instruments are important for reporting weather data | but are not sufficient for forecasting local conditions,

book to the details of cloud forma-| | tions, their signs and portents and

“The Snake

whose greatest “The Vagabond King.”

their Literary

He does an excellent lege for a novel

Pit,”

stage

1947 Interfellowship to

current best- |

his name inspired terror for years! {the meaning of various wind shifts seller, will be produced in pictures!

afterward. His mistake was {shooting a 13-year-old boy, | Tom's own admission “the dirtiest trick I ever done.” Superb writing carries the book [to a brisk elimax.

best in the West, were to his hangman as he fixed the noose: “Look at the crowd, Dick. . ,. youl ever see so many scared

netian Davs,” Gibbon's “Decline and opinion that Conrad put too yl in your life?”

Did |

way. | These details and their mastery through continued use and applica- |

would have lived | ‘New Plageman

On America, Skillfully Written

"ALL FOR THE BEST.” A novel.

By Bentz Plagemann. New

A NOVEL “in the manner of” is |

apt to be a perilous undertaking. | Thus, Mr. Plagemann’'s following |

‘somewhat the pattern of Voltaire's suggests comparisons not: (always favorable to “All for the

“Candide” Best.” Forster, is naive enough, goodness

far less amiable than Voltaire's hero, if memory serves. David's priggishness and snobbishness, qualities often associated with in-a-vitaminosis, become more than slightly wearing. » . ” THE STORY of “All for the Best” is related by David himself. Brought up by his uncle Harry, wealthy, super-sophisticated hedonist, David never seems to learn the psychological and social, as distinet from the biological, facts of life. His experience as an officer in the world war |r navy reveals his inability to in[terpres human beings apart from |rank and caste.

| Mr. Plagemann's satire in the extended naval episode is at times

York, Simon & Schuster, $2.50 |

2 Mr. Plagemann's Candide, David |

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n Novel, Satire

Bents Plagemann : trait by Seymour Ball

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THE BOOK makes much of David's hyper-conventional atti. tudes towards sex, with Mary Jane symbolizing Sacred, and Elissa, the

in| and their effect on the coming by Anatol Litvak, with either In- | by | weather, except in a very general 'grid Bergman or Olivia de Havil- |

land favored for the leading roles.

Tom's neckti€' tion are of more importance to the publishers,

According to Random House, the the

mental institution | | party is still classified as one of the amateur forecaster than a very de-| {described in the book is said to be |

His last words tailed discussion of weather instru- 'based on Rockland State hospital, |

some 40 miles north of New York,

refugee, - symbolizing Profane love, You begin to feel sorry for David, insufferably unrealistic though he is, in the “passages d'amour.” Lengthy quotations from Uncle Harry take up a lot of space. The | Iman resembles similar omniscient | | characters in Aldous Huxley's earli-

er nqvels, except that he is neither |

over-trenchant enough to be Irritdt-| so entertaining nor so well In-{

ing. There is too much laboring of | such passages as. said. the enlisted men are the back- | none of the navy, and we must al-|

formed. Readers may find him

“Capt. Roberts | tedious.

There's a bitterness and angular- | ity about “All for the Best” which

ways remember that. Capt. Roberts may limit its appeal, even though | wad an Annapolis man himself, and, Mr. Plagemann -has organized and | I thought this a fine, democratic | written his satire on America with]

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