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Author and Marine Biologist Rachel Carson has moved in from the vasty deeps of The Sea Around Us and made a beachhead on the ground roughly bounded by the rise and fall of the tides-the evolutionary home...
...reason for any change in my attitude or preference." This did not presage any substantial split in the New York State vote for Harriman, whose coach, Tammany's Carmine De Sapio, will control the 1956 convention delegation. But Lehman's name did give the Stevensonites a beachhead in New York, where they could deploy diversionary forces with some nuisance value...
...concert stage last week became the beachhead for a two-pronged invasion, junior-size: Germany's Obernkirchen Children's Choir attacked in Manhattan, while the Little Singers of Paris took over Washington. Displaying powerful charm and undeniably high musicianship, the Gallic and Germanic youngsters (both groups will tour in the U.S. for about ten weeks) easily overpowered their pleased U.S. victims...
Except for its loving re-creation of England in wartime and an explosive 20-page finale of beachhead action (Canadian-born Author Shapiro himself covered Sicily, Salerno and Normandy as a war correspondent), there is less reason for The Sixth of June to be remembered than remaindered. The fact that it is the Book-of-the-Month Club choice for August may make it an automatic bestseller, but it will strike many readers as 31 days' praise too many...
...Died. Vice Admiral C. A. F. ("Alphabet") Sprague, 59, veteran naval aviator, commander of the group of six escort carriers, three destroyers and four destroyer escorts that helped save the U.S. beachhead in the Philippines by turning back the bulk of the Japanese fleet in the Battle for Leyte Gulf in October, 1944; of a heart attack; in San Diego...