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Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.) Trial by Fury tells how Miami Herald Reporter James Buchanan turned from newsman into news story-when the Castro regime jailed him, charging him with aiding the escape of U.S. Flyer Austin Young...
When he lunches at his desk, his wife, Kate Davis Pulitzer Putnam (widow of a World War II flyer, sister of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Editor-Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr.), sends his food over by messenger. His easy smile, his compact, 183-Ib. frame and close-cropped, curly hair help him when he wants to be charming-and his short-fused temper is almost legendary. "Pete wants to hear a clear and specific answer, or 'Yes,' 'No,' or 'Maybe,' " says one staffer. "God help anybody who starts to answer Quesada with...
There is a new monster at large in Germany today and its name is prosperity. That is the view of Gerd Gaiser, South German novelist, World War II flyer and sometime schoolmaster. His countrymen's real religion is materialism, he feels, and their real measure of success is possession. In this book, Novelist Gaiser tries to show that in such a society, good people can only be hurt, while the greedy are blissfully unaware of their own ugliness. Says one well-to-do mother to her well-padded daughter: "Ditta, one shouldn't breathe a word...
Their creator was far from commonplace. Though he was acclaimed as the top bestseller of all contemporary British authors, and his annual royalties topped the $175,000 mark, Shute insisted that he wrote novels "for fun." Aviation was his ruling passion, and he pursued it as a flyer, aeronautical engineer, and founder of his own manufacturing firm, Airspeed Ltd. Out of his craft and his passion, Shute fashioned an exciting double life...
...World War II, Nevil Shute, with the rank of lieutenant commander in the British Admiralty, worked on secret weapons. In 1950, fed up with confiscatory taxes and a feeling of decline in welfare-state Britain, he moved to Australia. A series of heart attacks grounded the old flyer and curbed his boating and sports-car racing. He settled into the life of a country squire at his pig and dairy farm at Langwarrin, Victoria...