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Wodehouse's American friends for a long time heard nothing about him at all. This week they learned that he is interned in a former insane asylum at Tost, a small village in the monotonous sugar-beet flatlands of Upper Silesia. Wodehouse has been there since the prison camp was created last September. No Castle Blandings, his prison is a big, brick, T-shaped, three-storied structure with many barred windows, high brick & wooden walls. A small military garrison runs and guards the camp. Central heating is said to be good, sanitation adequate. There are hospital facilities...
...union, the Trades Union Congress, of which aitchless Labor Minister Ernest Bevin ("Britain's Next Prime Minister" to his friends) is the dominating figure. Chairman of T. U. C. is Ernest Bevin's good friend George Gibson, who used to be a male nurse in an insane asylum. Last week ex-Nurse Gibson inducted into T. U. C. its first and only royal honorary member, His Majesty King George...
...Magic Island credulously expounded Haitian voodoo, introduced "zombi" into U. S. speech. Adventures in Arabia found Seabrook among the whirling dervishes, learning to become a trance mystic. Jungle Ways presented him studying magic on the Ivory Coast, photographing phallic monuments, eating human flesh ("like good, fully developed veal"). Asylum was a frank account of another weird region: a New York insane asylum where he was cured of dipsomania...
...young matron named Sandra Wilson) intends to take a vacation. At the present time the charming Sandra is married to a loony who is being treated in a private sanatorium. In order to get Sandra off the air, her unstable spouse will be permitted to escape from the asylum. Thereupon Sandra will have to go and look...
...these attacks recurred over a life time of 83 years, during which Mary Lamb outlived all of her family and most of her friends, people grew used to seeing Charles & Mary, "weeping together and walking arm in arm toward the asylum." At other times, theirs was a far from unhappy life. As pieced together by Biographer Ross from the Lamb literary remains, from scraps of correspondence, there is little ordeal in the day-to-day doings of Bridget Elia (Lamb's literary name for his sister). What emerges is a singularly tender brother-&-sister relationship, of much charm, grace...