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VANISHED by Fletcher Knebel. 407 pages. Doubleday...
Alan D. Bersin, of Kirkland House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; William A. Fletcher, of Kirkland House and Seattle, Wash.; Boisfeuillet Jones Jr. of Leverett House and Atlanta, Ga.; Frederick N. Ris of Eliot House and Denver, Colo.; David A Samuels, of Eliot House and Hollywood, Fla.; and Thomas S. Williamson Jr., of Kirkland House and Piedmont, Calif., are recipients of the scholarship...
...captains to pace a fo'c'sle, practically everyone's No. 1 dirty sea dog is William Bligh, commander of H.M.S. Bounty until he and 18 crewmen were left tossing in a dinghy by Mutineer Fletcher Christian...
...rescuing himself; he also went on to a brilliant naval career that won him a battle commendation from Admiral Lord Nelson. To be sure, admitted Lloyd, the good Bligh had trouble "understanding the feelings of other people," but that merely reflected "an unfortunate personality," which is probably what Fletcher Christian meant to say all along...
...Fashion International, a design-consultant subsidiary with offices in Paris and New York, as well as McDonald Research Ltd. of Canada, went under. Chicago Group Inc., a special-projects unit, was absorbed by Mc-Cann-Erickson's Chicago office, while one of Interpublic's nine advertising agencies, Fletcher Richards, was merged with Marschalk & Co. Ancillary units like Starflite Inc., which operated three airplanes mostly for Interpublic executives, and a dude ranch on Long Island, where executive conferences used to be held, have been scrapped...