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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party meeting, Ghosh flew off to Peking to beg Mao Tse-tung to be less brutal. Unsuccessful in Peking, Ghosh went back to Moscow to plead for help there, and last week completed his circle tour by scurrying home to New Delhi to try to hold the party together. Best measure of his success so far: postponement of a party central-committee meeting scheduled for this week, presumably to allow time for tempers to cool...
Marvel of Mobility. Stubborn addicts of the classic whodunit consider the TV Eye a boor. Some paperback browsers, still slavering over Mickey Spillane's sleuthing satyrs, consider him a sissy. But the TV Eye often has more taste than his critics. At his best, he is a healthy step backward toward the hardboiled heroes who swaggered onto the American scene in the novels of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler...
...found an acceptable running mate in Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe who would tell the girls: "The first time we met, I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I don't play at it." At his best, the TV Private Eye operates in that tradition...
...Best of Everything (20th Century-Fox), based on Rona Jaffe's bestselling novel (TIME. Sept. 15, 1958), tells what happens to the bright young things from college that come wriggling down to Manhattan to get in The Big Swim. They land in The Typing Pool. And from there, it is only another wriggle to The Flesh Pot. Compared with the hot buttered Manhattan of Authoress Jaffe's imagination, the Hollywood version of the big city is a sort of cautiously diluted Scotch-and-Sodom. Nevertheless, a virgin's virtue can dissolve with appalling celerity in this sinister...
...which the plumber is hero, being both "a craftsman and a necessity." A good part of the Kitchen-Sink work looks as if a plumber could have painted it, including some still lifes that focus hard on that hardy piece of English enamelware, the water closet. But at its best the new realism has the effect of a pint of bitter-tart proof that Englishmen can still face life with relish...