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Secret Service Following. As Ike's pilot, Barrett will be called on for no such derring-do. But if troubles arise, he has been thoroughly schooled. Since his selection, Barrett has flown the H-47J 75 hours, has crisscrossed Washington pinpointing emergency landing sites, e.g., the Jefferson Memorial lawn...
Abiding Passion. Piloting Continental is President Robert Six, 49, a burly Californian who is not only a Man of Distinction (1947) for Calvert whisky but for Ethel Merman, his musicomedienne (Happy Hunting) wife. With a Westerner's derring-do, Six has dabbled in oil wells, uranium and chemicals, hunts...
Before the action ends in a satisfactory bang, there is an uninterrupted spate of sinkings, gunplay, throat-slittings, cliff-hangings, captures and escapes, surrounded by sound technical information. For the young in heart it is great stuff-a first-rate derring-documentary. As in H.M.S. Ulysses, Novelist MacLean sternly eschews...
By the time most correspondents got to Port Said last fortnight, the fighting was virtually over-and Paris-Match Photographer-Reporter Jean Roy, 34, had the situation well in hand. The big (6 ft., 190 Ibs.), handsome Frenchman (real name: Yves Leleu) was living up to his legend as the...
Ostensibly, Jason is one of those charming, feckless boy-men whom women love and yearn to mother and men find alternately fascinating and exasperating. But from the moment Jason is displayed as a terrified small boy, cringing before the hectoring of his retired-general father, the most cursory student of...