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...SILENT, RUN DEEP, by Commander Edward L. Beach, U.S.N. (364 pp.; Holt; $3.95). President Eisenhower's naval aide, 36, topflight submariner and author of the best account to date of undersea combat (Submarine!), has now written his first novel. It is a war novel, with a vengeance. Ed Richardson runs into just about every heart-stopping jam that a Medal-of-Honor-winning pigboat skipper can get into and out of in the battle against Japan. While ripping up shipping all around the Western Pacific, he tangles with "Bungo Pete," the cunning old Japanese ex-submariner whose beaten...
Elsewhere, the world was moving out of doors. But from Corvallis, Ore., to Philadelphia, Pa., gymnasiums still echoed to the dull thwack of basketballs bouncing off backboards. Some time before the school year ends, the outsize collegians on the topflight U.S. basketball teams will have to buckle down to their homework, but this week they will be mainly occupied with somewhat less academic matters: the N.C.A.A. and the National Invitation tournaments...
...Names. Wolfson also named candidates Nos. 4 and 5 to his proposed nine-man slate of Ward directors (the first three: Wolfson himself; Robert Black president of the White Motor Co. : William J. Hobbs, onetime Coca-Cola president). One was topflight Advertising Woman Bernice Fitz-Gibbon of New York, the famed sloganeer who originated Macy's "It's smart to be thrifty," and "Nobody, but nobody undersells Gimbels." The other: E. W. Endter, risen-from-the-ranks president of California Oil East Coast subsidiary of Standard Oil of California. Endter told reporters that he had resigned when forced...
...McCurdy's powerful track teams are well known, but few people realize the excellence and length of his career as a middle distance man. In his final year at Tamalpais High School in California, McCurdy won his first race against topflight competition and became the state's 880 champion. The following year, as a Stanford freshman, he entered the front rank of the nation's runners, duelling his teammate Ben Eastman, an Olympic star, in what McCurdy calls the most gruelling races of his career...
...drifted in from such places as Greenland or Morocco run dredges, build railroads, drive piles (but in the oilfields the oldtime Texas roughnecks have largely been replaced by the Venezuelans they trained). In the cities the American musiús (Venezuelan slang for any foreigner, from monsieur) range from topflight oil-company executives and managers of U.S.-owned factories or assembly plants (cars, tires, chemicals, etc.) through a wide spectrum of salesmen, admen and promoters to some all-purpose operators that the others call "export bums." U.S. and other foreign companies have contributed heavily to Caracas' great private building...