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The refugee author and his family will be accompanied by Shute's faithful private secretary, the Shute gardener and handyman, and his four-seater Percival-Proctor monoplane ("To fly your own plane is the ideal way for an author to travel"). Says Shute: "I want my two daughters to...
The topic laid out on the long mahogany table last week, as it had been the week before, was guided missiles-a subject which the Navy probably knows most about. The discussion was detailed and technical; it was also secret, and properly so. The man in the admiral's...
The second of a family of six sons-and a daughter, Forrest Percival Sherman was born to the headmaster of a small school in Reeds Ferry, N.H. (pop. 265) and to a mother whose forebears were John and Priscilla Alden. Shermans had fought with the colonists against the Dutch, gone...
Too light for football, Sherman made the fencing team, was pronounced by the Lucky Bag "supreme as a fusser [a genteel wolf] and yard reptile [a midshipman who squires the daughters of Annapolis captains and admirals]." He was also something of a teacher's pet. When a classmate asked...
Saved by Disloyalty. "It does seem to me," says Graham Greene in Why Do I Write? (just published in Britain by Percival Marshall), "that one privilege [the writer] can claim, in common perhaps with" his fellow human beings, but possibly with greater safety, is that of disloyalty ... I belong to...