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...moment after collision the sub-was raked with machine-gun fire. "Clear the bridge," Gilmore ordered. Four men, two of them hurt, slid down the hatch, but not Gilmore, who was helplessly wounded. His last order, in a crisp voice, was "Take her down." He had to say it once more before his executive officer closed the hatch, took her down, leaving his skipper to drown. The Growler made it home, to fight again...
Betsy falls in love with Young, but she is disturbed by reminders of his dead wife, and even more by the misfortunes that hound him: his horse is mysteriously crippled, his dog killed, his rosebush poisoned, his favorite painting bleached and, finally, his house burned to a crisp. A kindly doctor warns Betsy that Young is a dangerous paranoiac with a yen for damaging his own property, and even Young urges her to stay away. But she sticks by him right to the psychiatricky finish...
MAXWELL D. TAYLOR, 49, Berlin's crisp commandant and an expert on airborne planning, to take Bolte's staff job in the Pentagon; rank (two stars) unchanged...
...executive mansion last week, a group of personal and political friends turned up to bid them goodbye. As a token of esteem for the man who ran for President in 1948 on the Dixiecrats' states' rights program, the friends brought along a shiny new Cadillac and five crisp $100 bills to help the Thurmonds set up housekeeping at Aiken. "I'm floored," said the ex-governor. Thurmond planned to practice law, said he was not sure whether he would stay in politics. But some of his admirers were not so doubtful. Said Thurmond's friend Leon...
...exaggeration, but not a wild one. Lucioni has made outdoor Vermont his bailiwick, and no one paints it better. Working slowly and meticulously from nature, with tiny camel's-hair brushes, he mixes weathered barns, shady elms, blue-green hills and white steeples into canvases as crisp as a good salad...