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...RETURN OF GUNNER ASCH (310 pp.) _ Hans Hellmuf Kirst - Little, Brown...
Artist Boris Artzybasheff has a cool, ex-machine gunner's eye that can ruffle even the armor of a battleship, and has. With a knack for spotting an ogle where an I-beam ought to be, Artzy has been doing covers for TIME since 1941, created a pistol-packing battleship as background for Japanese Admiral Nagano, a school of sea-monster telescopes for Admiral Doenitz, a Veto-Bug for Gromyko. A special euphoria overtakes Artzy when the humans depart, leaving the machines alone with their fears, grimaces, ulcers and unique sex-appeal. Among Artzy's memorable anthropomorphic revelations...
Died. Roland H. Clark, 83, author (Gunner's Dawn, Stray Shots) and hunter-artist whose realistic etchings, watercolors and oil paintings of wild fowl made him a favorite with sportsmen; in Norwalk, Conn...
...himself as "a pretty worthless fellow." The son of a Texas dirt farmer, he left school after the eighth grade, worked at a prewar Civilian Conservation Corps camp until he joined the Air Force at 17. Though he made a respectable war record as a B-17 waist gunner in Europe, he never seemed able to settle down once he had left the service. He worked at radio and TV repair jobs in Alaska, Seattle and Palo Alto, Calif., finally ended up as a booking agent for a small jazz band in Las Cruces, N. Mex. There he wrote...
Armored cars rolled up outside, and their machine gunners opened fire at student snipers on nearby rooftops. One gunner, spotting a suspicious figure in the Regis Hotel, poured 200 rounds toward the room, and thereby killed Tourist Pete Korenda, of Clifton, N.J. Three hours later the firing stopped. At Radio Reloj, cops cut off and killed the fleeing students who had attacked the station. One of them was Student Leader José Antonio Echevarria, 25, who last month told a visiting U.S. newsman that "Cuban students are not afraid...