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There is no such unreal detachment in another English tale, Landfall (Morrow, $2.50) by Nevil Shute (real name: Nevil Shute Norway). Five months before World War II began, Shute's novel, Ordeal, depicted its coming horrors with remarkable power and prescience. Onetime dirigible builder and airplane manufacturer, Shute is now working at the Admiralty, wrote Landfall in his spare time. It is the story of an R. A. F. pilot on the Channel patrol who sinks a submarine, falls in love with a barmaid. The Navy thinks the submarine was British; Mona, her ears open behind the bar, sets...
...CAPTIVITY - Nevil Shute -Morrow ($2.50). Nevil Shute is a British aeronautical engineer who now holds an important post in the Air Ministry. His last novel, Ordeal, whisked readably through the harrowing experiences of a middle-class family during a raid on England by a thousand enemy bombers. Less exciting than Ordeal, Author Shute's An Old Captivity turns to a peacetime theme-the story of a British aviator who pilots an Oxford archaeologist and his daughter to Greenland in order to make aerial surveys of old Norse ruins. At his best in describing the flight itself, Author Shute complicates...
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...Author last year showed his knack for popularization in his bestseller, Kindling, the tale of a Banker Bountiful who rescues an unemployed shipyard town. More effective, Ordeal gives him material closer home. Pilot in the Royal Air Force Reserve, Author Shute (real name: Nevil Shute Norway) was deputy chief engineer (later chief) of construction of the airship R100, sailed with her on the first trip to Canada. In 1931 he formed an airplane company, saw it grown to 1,000 employes when he resigned last April. Ordeal to the contrary, Author Shute declares he is no alarmist. Average casualty rate...
...nominations for directors of the Harvard Fund Council are Philip W., Wrenn '94, Boston, finance; Christian H. Haberkorn, Jr., '12, Detroit, finance; Nevil Ford '13, New York, finance; Clay Judson '14, Chicago, law; Augustus Thorndike, Jr., 19, Boston, medicine; Francis Kernan, Jr., '24, New York, finance; John E. Toulmin '25, Boston, finance; and Alexander J. Cassatt '27, Philadelphia, finance...