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...medicine chest of a real M.D., British-born A. (for Archibald) J. (for Joseph) Cronin. Dr. Cronin's compound is easier to swallow only because it is smaller. The story deals with the U.S. consul in a Spanish town, a vain, possessive introvert who stands between his frail young son and a normal boyhood. When the boy becomes fond of their kindly young gardener, the jealous consul breaks up their innocent friendship by a device that leads to the gardener's death. Dr. Cronin writes better than Novelists Yerby and Williams, but this is a minor effort, contrived...
...Minh and his government are prisoners of the sinister Tong Bo, the Communist Party Politburo, and in particular of five of its members, rising young extremists who really run the show. The most important is Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietminh's frail, passionate, 38-year-old Minister of National Defense. Vo Nguyen Giap, a Communist since his teens, was first arrested when he was 18. His wife died in a French jail four years ago. More than anyone else, he created the Vietminh army. A ruthless and bloodthirsty man, he has coldly directed the liquidation of anti-Communists...
Lawrence Mario Giannini, president of the Bank of America, is a frail but stubborn man. When the Federal Reserve Board got a court order last month to block his purchase of 22 banks from Transamerica Corp. (TiME, July 10), Giannini ignored the order. The FRB-and Giannini, too-were well aware that the purchase would cut Transamerica's holdings in California to only four banks, and thus take much of the steam out of the FRB's antitrust suit against Transamerica...
...seamen of Ystad and Tralleborg shook their heads as the frail craft headed southwest. "They'll never clear a storm," they murmured. Eight days later the Lusty Snake passed through the Kiel Canal into the North Sea. Young Navigator Börje Persson, 26, who had just got his master's papers and quit his job on a trawler to join the voyagers, set the course for Rotterdam...
...suit against Tranasmerica Corp., world's biggest bank holding company, the Federal Reserve Board found the going rough. After 107 days of hearings it was still taking testimony trying to prove its case. Last week Transamerica President Sam H. Husbands, onetime RFC director, and Lawrence Mario Gianmni, the frail, shrewd president of the Bank of America, got together on a deal that did not make FRB's job any easier...