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Left. By the late Carl Meeker, 67, Los Angeles railroad fireman: his stomach; to science. Ballyhooed after a 1917 ulcer operation as the possessor of a transplanted goat's stomach, he had the last laugh on medicos, who found that their legacy was only human after...
...solution to the transportation problem was proposed last week by two top-flight U.S. engineers (Vladimir Yourkevitch, designer of the Normandie, and Frederick B. Woodworth, Smith-Meeker Engineering Co.'s radio chief): a covey of small (2,000-ton) cigar-shaped concrete ships, lying low in the water with about a foot of freeboard. The ships are to be without superstructure, without crews, self-powered by diesel engines, controlled by radio from a single armed mother ship (corvette or destroyer). Advantages: the ships would be tricky targets, almost invisible to a submarine or from any distance at sea; loss...
...IVORY MISCHIEF-Arthur Meeker Jr.-Houghton, Mifflin...
...Author Meeker really knows and likes his subject, which is 17th-Century France. None of his major incidents, none of his characters, are invented; there is none of the usual effort to hand the reader a night-school course in the political-military his tory of the age. Instead he sticks faithfully to a full account of the actual lives and for tunes of two absorbing Frenchwomen...
...Author Meeker's credit he handles these somewhat Suetonian materials not only without playing them up for the salacious trade, but so firmly that they become a social and human document, richly textured with quotidian details of housekeeping, matchmaking, small-talk and general upper-class living. Even the glimpses of Court, of battle, of provincial life, have little of the quality of set pieces, much of the taste of immediacy. Few historical novels do as much...