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This week buyers had their choice of two Caseys. The two-year-old is Battle Below (Bobbs-Merrill; $3.50), full of the life and color of the men of the submarine service, high-pointed by a hilarious account of the 19 moves it takes to operate a submarine toilet, and what once happened to the German admiral who made the wrong moves and found himself suctioned to the seat. The other book is This Is Where I Came In (Bobbs-Merrill; $3), filled with stories of the British fleet, the Normandy fighting, the final victory. In either case...
...Scott, In Darr. These fiscal shenanigans were the climax in a two-year-old squabble between eccentric Mr. Scott and a lean, hard-headed ex-flier named Hal S. Darr, who now controls the company which Scott once owned and headed. Darr became board chairman in 1943. At that time the company was doing a $2,800,000-a-year business, principally with the Navy, and Scott was still the boss. But when he totted up the profits on his Navy business he found, what with renegotiation, ($300,000), taxes, etc. that he had only $90,000 left...
...Louisville, with most of last year's two-year-old glamor horses benched, not even Colonel Matt Winn's well-oiled tub-thumping machinery could make the 71st Kentucky Derby much more than just another horse race. Hoop Jr. splashed his way to a six-length victory in the richest Derby on record (winner's value: $64,850). Second: Calumet Farm's favored Pot o' Luck...
Marriage Annulled. Fanny Taylor Baldwin Foote, 20, daughter of suave. Republican Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin III from Manhattan's "silk stocking district"; and Wallace Turner Foote. 26, Manhattan socialite. Representative Baldwin, appearing for his daughter, testified that his son-in-law had never consummated the two-year-old marriage...
...local stations of some 200 small towns had literary stimulants to dispense last week. Author Meets the Critics, a two-year-old weekly feature on Manhattan's WHN, will henceforth be heard on records in Opelika, Ala., Tucumcari, N.Mex., many another village out of earshot of the big networks...