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Died. Edward Pearson Warner. 63. M.I.T.-trained aeronautical engineer, internationally famed air-age sage, longtime ( 1945-57 ) president of the council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, editor of Aviation (1929-35), vice chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board; of a heart attack; in Duxbury. Mass...
Indiscreet (Grandon; Warner), in the Broadway version (Kind Sir), was the sort of romantic comedy that is all dressed up but obviously has no place to go-but then, Broadway scarcely has the resources that are required to gild this sort of lulu. Instead of $100,000, the movie's Producer-Director Stanley Donen had about $1,500,000 to squander. Instead of painted flats, he had the city of London for his backdrop, and some of the city's stateliest halls for his interiors. Instead of nature's timid hues, he had Technicolor. Instead...
VICTORY: THE LIFE OF LORD NELSON (393 pp.)-Oliver Warner-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...within his code, a gentle man, beloved by officers and crew. His sailors were "brave fellows" and a "band of brothers." Nelson set a good table and a stern example. That he lived to save Europe from Napoleon is something of a miracle, and British Biographer Warner (a naval buff from the time he sat at Caius College, Cambridge, beneath a portrait of Nelson's father) has shown a hagiographer's diligence in turning over the records of England's seagoing lay saint...
Billows & Pillows. In his portrait, Author Warner tells a great many of the old Nelson stories, and some unfamiliar ones. Example: as a midshipman at 14, Nelson found himself on an expedition to the Arctic. He tried to kill a polar bear to get its skin for his father. He missed the beast with his first shot and wanted to clobber it with a clubbed musket...