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International Society. Hungarian-born Author Boros, fortyish, who during 20 years of life in Britain has admirably mastered the English language, herself spent years in TB sanatoriums. Says she: "Those sanatoriums just don't exist any longer. With all the antibiotics, the illness has lost its peculiar quality. TBs used to be a kind of international society. It was that world of their own that I wanted to write about." The result is no Magic Mountain, but it is brilliant in its way. There has seldom been so sensual a novel written with so little eroticism or with...
...strip character, and making a deal with Merrill's well-stocked cruisers for tons of ice cream. He ran a taut ship with an easy hand. One of the few public reprimands he ever handed out was when one of his destroyers strayed out of formation. Over his TBS (Talk Between Ships) radio, Burke snapped to the offending skipper: "Mister, that's a destroyer...
...Rear Admiral Burke commanded Cruiser Division Five in Korean waters. One officer remembers: "The old man really ran the show. He was his own chief of staff, his own intelligence officer, his own operations officer. He even was his own talker on the bridge. If a TBS (talk between ships) message came when he was on the bridge, you endangered your life if you got between him and the phone...
COLUMBIA Broadcasting System is showing off a new compatible electronic color picture tube that can be mass-produced, in sizes up to 21 inches, and will be sold for only 30% more than comparable black & white tubes. Tbs new tube will mean a drastic cut in the $750-to-$1000 price estimated for the first color sets, and possibly a big royalty jackpot...
Appearance: Big-boned and muscular (6 ft.1 in., 190 tbs.), blue-eyed, with greying, close-cropped hair...