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...within seconds Shafty had redonned his life belt for another plunge. "I'm going to swim over to that next island and try to hail one of our patrols," he said. From then until show's end, day and night, Shafty swam and swam and swam; the camera caught him barechested, fighting currents, rolling almost unconscious in the swirl, negotiating dangerous reefs, coughing, stumbling through the underbrush. "Let me tell you," says Crewman Maguire, "there's a guy." Soon some friendly natives were smuggling Shafty to safety and a rescue team. After a few more dips...
...months since hearty, hail-fellow Robert Gordon Sproul, 66, announced that he would retire as president of the University of California in July 1958, the university's board of regents has scoured the entire nation for a successor. Last week they looked in their own backyard−and picked balding, mild-mannered Clark Kerr, 46, since 1952 the able and popular chancellor of the campus at Berkeley...
...when he arrived in Rome in 1510 on a minor mission for his order, the young Augustinian monk of Wittenberg, Martin Luther by name, fell on his knees and cried: "Hail to thee, O Holy Rome!" Luther "went through all the devotions of a pilgrim . . . and earned so many indulgences that he almost wished his parents were dead, so that he might deliver them from purgatory...
...point of neglect. After a writing span of more than three decades, during which he produced an even dozen novels, Cozzens is the least known and least discussed of major American novelists. Any two people, on discovering that they are both Cozzens fans, are apt to hail each other fervently, like members of a secret society...
...Soviet spies, bemused FBI men referred to him as their "special special agent." Last week, with the Soble spy ring (TIME, Aug. 19) cracked as a result of his information, and Boris Morros' counterspy career over at last, the Justice Department allowed its departing "special special agent" a hail-and-farewell press conference...