DARTMOUTH AUTHORS

Edward P. Stafford '42, Subchaser (Naval Institute Press)—The dangerous world of a small wooden World War II subchaser comes alive in naval historian Stafford's chronicle of his command of subchaser 692 and her 30-member crew. Retired from a naval career, Stafford, whose grandfather was North Pole explorer Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, has written three other naval books, and served as a speechwriter for the secretary of the navy and NASA.

Richard E. Welch Jr. '45, The Presidencies of Grover Cleveland (University Press of Kansas)— Lafayette College history professor Welch reassesses the Cleveland years for UPK's American Presidency Series. According to the publisher's review, Welch presents Cleveland as a strong authoritarian whose presidency "served as the essential preface to the development of a modern presidency and to the identification of executive power."

Bernard D. Nossiter '47, The GlobalStruggle for More: Third World Conflicts with Rich Nations (Harper &Row)— Maintaining that "Trade is better than aid," Nossiter argues that prosperity in the Third World (which he terms "the south") depends on continued economic growth in the developed nations ("the north"). Nossiter, veteran journalist of the New York Times and the Washington Post, prepared this collection of essays on economics and politics at the request of the Twentieth Century Fund Social Issues Research Foundation.

Robert B. Irvine '60, When You Arethe Headline: Managing a Major NewsStory (Dow Jones-Irwin) — lrvine drew upon his experience managing public relations for Humana Hospital's first artificial heart operations to produce a book about handling the media when an organization makes headlines, good or bad. Irvine, ex ecutive vice president of a Louisville, Kentucky, public relations firm, discusses such events as the Challenger explosion, Bhopal, and "Baby Fae."

Jack Quinan '62, Frank LloydWright's Larkin Building: Myth andFact (The Architectural History Foundation and The M.I.T. Press) Quinan, a professor of art history at the State University of New York, Buffalo, details in plans, photographs, text, and letters the story of an early Wright masterwork built in Buffalo in 1904—and demolished in 1950.

Ted Baehr '69, with Bruce Grimes and Lisa Ann Rice, The Movie & VideoGuide for Christian Families (Thomas Nelson) — Baehr, a member of the board of directors of the National Religious Broadcasters, rates films according to criteria that include language, violence, nudity, and treatment of religion.

Robert W. Amler '72 and H. Bruce Dull, eds., Closing the Gap: The Burden of Unnecessary Illness (Oxford University Press)— This volume presents the proceedings of a 1984 conference at Emory University's Carter Center on preventing premature deaths from such causes as substance abuse, depression, diabetes mellitus, cancer, and violence. Amler is a physician and medical epidemiologist at Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control.

Richard C. Smith '73 ,A Secret Singing (New American Library) — Bangor, Maine, lawyer Smith's first novel features a Harvard Law School dropout named James Maxfield Mallory as a street-smart private investigator who lives in Boston's Combat Zone and chases a killer ,in the world of Boston's upper crust.