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...Inky Smudge": Judge, to "Noah's Ark": Park); his pageant of animals educates almost as much as it amuses. Perhaps the most diverting beast of the season is the dragon of Magic in the Mist (Atheneum; $4.95). Margaret Mary Kimmel's happy reptile-illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman-is the best igniter since the match...
...Jimmy was the first member of his family to finish high school. He moved from Georgia Southwestern College to Georgia Tech and then in 1943 to the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving five years on battleships and conventional submarines, he was selected by one of his heroes, Admiral Hyman Rickover, to join the nuclear-submarine program. He was the prelaunch skipper of the submarine Seawolf, but when his father died in 1953, he left the Navy to help his family...
...Died. Hyman Kraft, 76, playwright and author; of complications arising from injuries suffered when he was struck by a bicycle; in Manhattan. Kraft wrote his first play at 33, later collaborated with Theodore Dreiser on the screenplay for An American Tragedy and became a journeyman playwright of comedies and musicals, among them Café Crown and Top Banana, a caustic, dizzy homage to comedy that Phil Silvers made into...
...more hopeful about a Middle East settlement now than you were a month ago?" The question was asked at a kind of political rap session held last week in the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville, Md. The leader was Hyman Bookbinder of the American Jewish Committee's capital office. The participants were 65 mostly middleaged, upper-middle-class Jews who gather with him each month. Lately the discussion has been chiefly about Israel and its prospects for peace and survival. Bookbinder watched carefully as slowly, hesitantly, one hand after another was raised until a clear majority signified...
Battista's apres-nous-le-deluge decade-long gangbang of imperialism provides the backdrop to the one point in his career where Michael seems on the verge of respectability. In partnership with Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg), he is about to transfer a large part of his wealth into more-or-less legitimate Cuban hotels and casinos. Along with executives of companies like United Fruit and "U.T.T." he goes to Havana to be honored by El President (whom U.T.T. presents with a solid gold telephone). But Michael's plans fall apart--Roth is really plotting his assassination, and in a weird...