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...Navy harbors little doubt about the ability of Polaris crews to stand the gaff. The ten officers and 90 enlisted men on each ship are all products of a probing, prying selection system modeled after the officer-procurement methods set up by the uncompromising perfectionist who is the most influential man in the U.S. nuclear Navy: Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover...
...packed with friends and relatives. The games draw less national publicity than the price of cotton raised on nearby farms. But year in and year out, the University of Mississippi plays some of the finest football in the nation. The reason: Coach Johnny Vaught, 52, a bluff, leather-faced perfectionist who has so identified the success of his team with the prestige of the state that Mississippians long ago forgot his Texas origins and now regard him as a native...
...Personae," the word with which Ezra Pound titled his first book of poems, originally meant masks. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, who is 75 this week, has worn many. There is Pound the poet, critic, scholar and esthetic perfectionist. There is Pound the economic crank, anti-Semite and Fascist apologist. There is Pound the expatriate bohemian, the discoverer, friend, advocate and ally of Eliot and Joyce, who got them into print. He begged, wheedled, scolded, scandalized others and scanted himself to secure bread-and-but ter money for them and for many another subsequently famed writer. In that role...
...musical comedy, of course," says George Abbott, "is to please." Abbott, who has co-authored and produced fifteen musicals and directed ten others, has a reputation in the theater as a ruthless perfectionist whose formula of pace plus "p-zazz" results in a hit nearly every time. This week he has set up out-of-town headquarters at the Ritz Hotel and the Shubert Theater during the pre-Broadway trial of Tenderloin, the tale of "the trial of a boy's soul" during New York...
...would-be explorer who has so far been little more than an exploiter, but financially at least he is the producer phenomenon of modern show business. He will produce $30 million worth of TV shows this year (up $12 million from last year). Partly because he is a perfectionist and partly because his better writers are buried like in Westminster Abbey, his shows will usually be good ones. Meanwhile, his East Coast flacks are putting out the word that "Hollywood has fallen at David Susskind's feet...