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...florid-faced millionaire with china-blue eyes, a mouthful of flashing gold teeth, and the booming voice of a sideshow barker. But energetic, stubby (5 ft. 8¾ in., 220 Ibs.) Harry Grant did not act like the run of carefree yachtsmen. When he was not tending the deep-sea fishing line trailing over the stern, he riffled through mountains of papers, pounded out letters and memos on a portable typewriter, talked by ship-to-shore phone...
...successful adventure stories had a personal-narrative quality that challenged the year's best fiction. Two of the best, and bestselling as well, were by Frenchmen: Maurice Herzog's thriller about the scaling of Annapurna (see CINEMA) and J. Y. Cousteau's eerily poetic description of deep-sea diving, The Silent World. Finest of the field was Charles Lindbergh's recollection of his flight across the Atlantic in 1927, The Spirit of St. Louis...
Married. Jacques Piccard, 31, Swiss deep-sea diver, who, with his famed father, Auguste Piccard, descended to a record 10,330 feet in a steel "bathyscaphe" into the Tyrrhenian Sea (TIME, Oct. 12); and Mary Claude Maillard, 24, a piano teacher; in Lausanne, Switzerland...
Personality & Point of View: A quiet, practical, genial Irish Catholic with deep-set blue eyes, a massive, laugh-crinkled face, huge shoulders and bristling hair. A Republican, he has never been active in politics. An expert in getting opposing forces together, he is considered shrewd by management and fair by labor. Bloomingdale employees honored him by waiving a no-executive rule to permit him to join their deep-sea fishing club. Never a labor-union member, he has never stated his views on the Taft-Hartley law in public. He once told an employer organization: "Unions can become our partners...
...full-rigged, deep-sea sailing-ship is gone, perhaps forever, and the man who mourns her most eloquently is Australia-born Alan Villiers. Anyone familiar with his earlier books (The Set of the Sails, Cruise of the Conrad) might suppose that Sailor-Author Villiers had unloaded his full cargo of grief and nostalgia, but not so. The Way of a Ship makes it clear that, after his seven trips around the Horn, sails will be flapping in his memory for life. A bit long on statistics, the book is nevertheless a fine armchair way of getting down to the sea...