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Article: The Wanderer.(Note)(Sterling Hayden)(Biography)
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- February 1, 2004
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Call him Sterling. Sterling Hayden. It is the name he chose for himself, confronted with "the flux of circumstance and the chaos of his own being," as Howard Vincent describes Ishmael in the Trying-Out of Moby-Dick. (1) His seven children and I (son-in-law) called him Papa. He was born Montague Relyea Walther in 1916 and was taken, yea, overtaken, as a young man with the great writers of the sea--Melville, Dana, Stevenson, and the various chroniclers of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty. (Sterling later named two of his sons Dana and Christian.) Like Melville, he lost his father at a young age and went to sea--where both men felt they got their real educations toiling ...
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