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...that of Novelist John Masters (TIME, March 28). His goal is as massive as it is simple: to tell the whole story of the English in India in 35 historical novels covering 300 years. At 41, with five of the books behind him (including Bhowani Junction, Night Runners of Bengal and CoromandeU), he has a fair chance of carrying out his plan -particularly since he works on an electric typewriter, turning out first drafts at a clip of 11,000 words a day. But U.S.-naturalized Novelist Masters has paused in his fiction labors to write a memoir...
...hours before the Russians arrived, a crowd estimated at more than 2,000,000 jammed the center of the city. Only a comparative handful were within viewing distance when at last Khrushchev, Bulganin and their host, West Bengal Chief Minister Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, showed up in an open Mercedes-Benz. At the intersection of two of Calcutta's big streets, the Russians waved their straw hats, and Khrushchev cried out in their own language: "Hindi Russi bhai bhai!" (Indians, Russians, brothers, brothers!). Instantly the crowd burst forward, shattering police lines and bamboo barricades to swarm over...
...replaced him, Major General Iskandar Mirza, is a blunt soldier who believes his people ready only for a "controlled democracy." Descended from one of the great Mogul families of India, and the son of a wealthy Bengal landowner, Mirza is a Moslem aristocrat and autocrat. Says he bluntly: "Democracy requires breeding. Pakistan is not ripe for democracy. These illiterate peasants certainly know less about running a country than I do." Mirza joined India's raj, or ruling class, when the British sent him to Sandhurst military college in 1918. There he got to be a crack rifle shot...
...Mirza. a whisky drinker and a heavy cigarette smoker, loathes intrigue and is staunchly loyal to those who trust him. Says he of Pakistan's politicians: "They are mostly crooks and scalawags." Last year when, as Governor of East Bengal, he worked titanically amid the flood disaster and was mobbed by genuinely cheering crowds, a Pakistani said: "Mirza has done more for the common man whom he says he despises than all the politicians who promised a new heaven and earth to get votes." Today Mirza lives in a big house with ample grounds and cool white porticos...
Born. To Robert Taylor, 43, veteran Hollywood leading man (Many Rivers to Cross?), and Ursula Thiess, 31, German-born cinemactress (Bengal Brigade): their first child (her third), a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Terrance. Weight...