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During predawn darkness in the mid-Pacific atomic proving grounds, the B-52 intercontinental jet bomber Barbara Grace roared upwards from Eniwetok Air Base, the big bomb in its belly. A fleet manned by 13,500 men stood 39 miles off target-Namu Atoll at the northwest edge of Bikini Atoll-while the big B-52 climbed to an altitude of 40,000 to 50,000 ft. Suddenly a fireball flared through the dark-silver-white, creamy-white, orange, red, boiling outward to a three-mile diameter at a speed of hundreds of miles per hour. Along the horizon spread...
GUESTWARD HO! (270 pp.)-Barbara Hooton, as indiscreetly confided to Patrick Dennis-Vanguard...
...from Paradise Isle. The refreshing switch in this latest packet of nonfiction escape literature is that Barbara Hooton thought of Manhattan as paradise and regarded the wide-open spaces as a disease which Hubby Bill had somehow caught. Her account of the running of a New Mexico dude ranch, as breezily set down by her collaborator and longtime friend, Patrick (Auntie Mame) Dennis, might be subtitled "Auntie Mame Rides Again" or "The Comic Labors of Hercules...
...hindrance. For a wrangler, a dude ranch's jack-of-all-trades, they had Curly, "as stunning as a window dummy and every bit as bright." Curly managed to ride his horse into the reservoir, the draining of which cut off the water supply for hours. Barbara, who "didn't know a tsp. from a Tbsp.," was far from home on the kitchen range. The cook she hired was touted as "marvelous with chicken," which was the whole truth-that's all she could cook...
Grandfatherly Beam. At week's end Ike drove to Gettysburg accompanied by two VIPs who were his weekend house guests: grandchildren David and Barbara Anne. While the President played the Gettysburg golf course, little David practiced his shots under the eye of Pro Dick Sleichter, then followed his grandfather's party around the back nine. Said Sleichter: "You'll be able to beat your father and your grandfather before many years." Father was not present to hear the warning, but grandfather beamed...