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...with their families, form a colony of 5,000. The Shah's navy includes nearly 40 destroyers, frigates and Hovercraft?some armed with missiles. Iran is now so important a customer for American arms that the head of the U.S. military mission in Tehran, Air Force Major General Devol ("Rock") Brett, has direct access to the Shah...
...seeing; but on all other counts it stinks. Stanley Kramer has degenerated from one of Hollywood's more interesting bad moviemakers into one of its most maudlin. The crude but somehow compelling live-TV quality of Judgment at Nuremberg and Ship of Fools, painted with crayon and musicalized by DeVol, blessed with Sidney Poitier, reveals Kramer to be an exceedingly dull thinker and hardly any artist...
...racked up a total of about 38 weightless hours. But bad weather and reassignment of planes had ruled out Major Stallings as my guide. Instead, I became the guest of the Tactical Air Command at Langley A.F.B., just inside the Virginia capes. Assigned to the project was Lieut. Colonel Devol ("Rock") Brett, skipper of the 355th Fighter Squadron and son of World War II's Lieut. General George H. Brett, now retired. West Pointer Brett, 34, veteran jet pilot, had hit the zero-gravity state for a few seconds on countless occasions, especially at the beginning of an outside...
...year class, and many a song (It Might as Well Be Spring, A Tree in the Meadow, Faraway Places) on to the hit parade. She has helped bring back the vogue for tandem singing by doubling with Wakely, Jack Smith, Bob Hope and Bandleader Frank DeVol. Says Los Angeles Disc Jockey Gene Norman: "Margaret could sing a duet with a talking horse and make him sound good...
FORTY YEARS A GAMBLER ON THE MISSISSIPPI-George H. Devol -Henry Holt ($2). An inland buccaneer tells many disconnected anecdotes of fleecing the not-so-innocents who traveled up and down the great valley before, during and after the Civil War. The chief characters are the three little pasteboards of three-card monte; the marked poker deck; palmed aces, loaded dice and Devol, who never would give up his takings, preferring a rough-and-tumble every time. He was an expert rough-and-tumbler and left a trail of broken noses behind him by his deftness at ramming with...