Nevil Shute Norway, who wrote under the name Nevil Shute, is not much studied in literature courses, nor are there many articles and books about him; but his annual income from royalties was extensive, and most of his twenty-four books are still in...

CHARLES SHUTE, with his Cambridge University colleague Peter Lewis, created pioneering maps of the cholinergic pathways - the pathways in the brain which carry the chemical acetycholine, which with noradrenaline was thought to influence brain activity - in the rat brain. Their work set...

John Andrew Shute, 96, an economist who retired from the Agency for International Development in 1973 as chief of the financial policy staff, died of pneumonia Dec. 4 at Potomac Nursing Home. He lived in Washington. Mr. Shute was a native of Boston...

The most thrilling stories of human magnificence are often those enforced on quiet protagonists who never intended to be heroes. That Nevil Shute should encounter such a tale in Sumatra promised well. His former books have marked him a direct-line descendant from those elite among the ancient wandering minstrels who could, from a first quiet sentence, implant irresistible urge to hear a tale. In its beginning "The Legacy" carries this authority; unfortunately, before the end tale-spinning magi...