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...Admiral Lord Mountevans, 75, British Royal Navy hero, whose exploits dot the high seas from England to China, author of sea-adventure stories (Pirate's Doom); in Golaa, Norway. Evans commanded the famed destroyer Broke (in 1917), which torpedoed one German raider, rammed a second and vanquished its cutlass-armed boarding party in old-fashioned hand-to-hand combat...
Before these two books, the male reader's heart is likely to shrink within him like a salted snail. They tell the stories of two overpowering women, different largely in the type of power they used. Harriet Hubbard Ayer carried culture between her dazzling teeth like a cutlass; Catherine Glynne Gladstone wielded a feather duster of a featherbrain. Both weapons were equally effective...
...Chance Vought and President Frederick 0. Detweiler, 44, have been through a difficult first solo. The last of C. V.'s famed prop-driven F4U Corsairs came off the line in 1953; bugs and engine trouble held back the Corsair's successor, the big twin-jet F7U Cutlass fighter, with production scheduled to end in late 1955. Though C. V. was also producing the Navy Regulus guided missile, had a development contract for a new supersonic missile and subcontracts from other planemakers, it needed a new plane to keep its 2.3 million-sq. ft. Dallas plant...
...because of development troubles. After calling off work on the 10,000-lb.-thrust J40 engine (originally slated to power the Grumman F10F, Douglas F4D, etc.), the Navy has now announced that production of the smaller J46 (about 6,000-lb.-thrust) engine used in the Chance Vought F7U Cutlass will run out towards the end of the year, thus eliminating Westinghouse from the Navy engine program...
BUCCANEER SURGEON, by C. V. Jerry (309 pp.; Hanover House; $3.50). Sir Francis Drake's surgeon, who is as expert with a cutlass as with a scalpel, tangles with the enemy on the Spanish Main, escapes the Inquisition, falls into the arms of a sweet, cream-colored little savage and has a hell of a time getting away when she curdles. He has vowed never to stab a man in the back or rape a virgin, and despite almost irresistible temptation on both counts, he keeps his promise...