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Despite his nickname, Commander Lionel Kenneth ("Buster") Crabb was no great shakes as a surface swimmer; but given a pair of rubber flippers, some goggles and an oxygen tank, he was at home in the murky depths. In 1942 when Italian divers were busily attaching lethal limpet mines to the bottoms of Royal Navy ships at anchor off Gibraltar, Buster Crabb was even busier at the far more dangerous job of removing them. Mustered out of the navy at war's end with the George Medal for heroism, Crabb returned to civilian life as a salesman...
Three weeks ago Frogman Crabb was once again plying his old trade in Britain's home waters, but no one, or practically no one, knew it until last week when, after an admitted delay of ten days, the British Admiralty announced tersely that Commander Crabb was "missing and presumed drowned." What had happened? All the Admiralty would say in amplification was that Frogman Crabb had been called back for special assignment and was "employed in connection with trials of certain underwater apparatus...
...Buster Crabb and an unidentified male companion had checked into Portsmouth's Sally Port Hotel on April 17. On the following day, the Russian cruiser Ordzhonikidze steamed into Portsmouth harbor bearing Visitors Khrushchev and Bulganin. Crabb was absent from his hotel room all that day. The next day he checked out and was never seen again. The day before the announcement of his disappearance, operatives from Britain's top-secret Criminal Investigation Division tore all records of his stay out of the hotel register. If Portsmouth's police were hunting for clues, they were not admitting...
...Financier Robert R. Young's Alleghany Corp. bought 93.6% of the voting stock (TIME, May 9, 1949). Young now controls I.D.S.'s $1 billion by the $1,968,000 he put up for the stock at $17 a share. He kept I.D.S.'s President Earl E. Crabb, 69, and its star salesman, Vice President Grady Clark, 50. But he made his own right-hand man, able Lawyer Robert W. Purcell, chairman of I.D.S.'s executive committee, and set him bird-dogging I.D.S.'s investments...
BREAKFAST AT THE HERMITAGE-Alfred Leland Crabb-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.75). In a sentimental novel of post-Civil War Tennessee, Professor Crabb tells how a poor boy became an architect while the Ladies Hermitage Association fought to restore "Old Hickory's" home...