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...BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI (147 pp.)-James A. Michener-Random House...
Lieut. Harry Brubaker, 29, was a naval aviator, and both a brave and fearful man. He was brave enough to be chosen to go in low and attack the enemy bridges at Toko-ri in Korea; he was honestly fearful of the heavy Communist flak, of the icy sea in which a ditched flyer could last only 20 minutes, and, indeed, of landing a jet on a pitching carrier...
When Brubaker is first seen in James Michener's short new novel, The Bridges at Toko-ri,* he has ditched his damaged jet and is being rescued, half-frozen, by a helicopter team. To the task-force commander, every flyer's life is precious; but this griping fellow, so like one of his own flyer sons lost in the Pacific, is a special concern. Talking to Brubaker after the rescue, the admiral asks: "Still bitter?" And he gets the answer: "Sometimes I'm so bitter I could bitch up the works on purpose . . . Nobody supports this...