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...hovering helicopters dumped bright flowers on the dented and travel-worn U.S. nuclear submarine Sargo last week as it churned back to its Pearl Harbor home base after a 6,000-mile round trip to the North Pole. When Sargo's boyish skipper, Lieut. Commander John H. Nicholson, 35, told his tale, it was clear that the warm welcome was hard earned by cold courage...
Last fall the America-Israel Cultural Foundation helped arrange a meeting between Rose and Bezalel's boyish, brilliant director, Karl Katz. Katz agreed that the hunger was there, and gave one cogent reason: there is hardly any modern art displayed in the Middle East. Argued Katz: "From Jerusalem you'd have to go west as far as Rome, east as far as Tokyo, and south forever, to find a decent modern collection. This one will fill a tremendous gap." He added that the museum owns 25 acres of barren ground in the geographic center of expanding Jerusalem. "When...
...Robert H. Stewart III, 34, was named president of the First National Bank in Dallas, the Southwest's second biggest (after Dallas' Republican National). Spectacled, boyish Bob Stewart is a third-generation banker whose grandfather was chairman of the First National, his father a director until last week (his uncle is president of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co.). He started as a runner for Dallas' Empire State Bank in 1949 after service as a first lieutenant in World War II and graduating from Southern Methodist University, joined the First National in 1951 as an assistant cashier...
Maine's new Governor is a native son, scion of a prosperous potato-farming family in Aroostook County. Boyish-looking John Reed got into politics only five years ago, winning a seat in the state house of representatives on his first try for public office. Last year he won the presidency of the Republican-dominated state senate in a surprise victory over the entrenched Old Guard Republican incumbent. A middle-road Republican, Reed will serve as Governor for only one year unless he decides to run in the November election for the last two years of Clausen...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN, edited by Charles Neider. The latest edition of Sam Clemens' massive, sprawling recollections gives a fascinating picture of the writer whom T. S. Eliot characterized thus: "The adult side of him was boyish. Only the boy in him, that was Huck Finn, was adult...