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...Jewel's haunted souls with understated urgency. As the gawky Daphne, Wooldridge is a particular marvel. Eyes wide and full of a startled innocence, she galumphs through life with such sweet diffidence that plainness itself seems radiant. An equally luminous pathos surrounds Dame Peggy Ashcroft's Barbie Batchelor, a sad little figure of baffled devotion who has little to do save muddle through her final days "very tired and old and far from home...
Antonia White worked as a journalist and as a translator from the French. She wrote three more autobiographical books, which follow her heroine, now called Clara Batchelor, until she is 23. The Lost Traveller centers on her intense relation with her adoring but autocratic father. If Claude Batchelor lacks Dickensian vitality, he is drawn with a similar range of contradictory, deeply human strengths and weaknesses. The Sugar House and Beyond the Glass, covering a disastrous marriage and an emotional breakdown (which White also suffered), are less effective, but reflect the accuracy and honesty of the author's eye. White...
DIED. Clarence Daniel Batchelor, 89, Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist syndicated by the New York Daily News; in Deep River, Conn. Batchelor won his 1937 Pulitzer for a cartoon depicting war as a prostitute with a death's-head, saying to a European youth, "Come on in. I'll treat you right. I used to know your daddy...
...elderly widow, Maybel Layton, who has foreseen the end of British India for years and feels that it is richly deserved. The second is Mildred, the wife of Colonel Layton, Maybel's stepson. The third is the book's major figure, a retired mission schoolteacher named Barbie Batchelor. She is a good, decent person, not very bright, and downright foolish about matters of practicality and self-interest. For 40 years she has tried to bring little Indian schoolchildren to Jesus, and now she doubts whether she did any good. At the end of the book, from her hospital...
...Pamela Batchelor, a June high school graduate in suburban Mountain Lakes, N.J., speaks for a growing number of U.S. students. Pam will spend the fall backpacking in Europe. As U.S. colleges open this autumn with a record enrollment of more than 8,000,000, several thousand young people with the brains to get in and the money for tuition will be missing. They are rebelling at the very idea of attending college at all-at least, as they see it, until they can figure out what the courses have to do with their own feelings and aims. Even among...