Word: brookes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JIMMY RIDDLE, by Ian Brook (317 pp.; Putnam; $3.95) has as its hero the Walter Mitty ideal of every British public-school boy who grew up to be a frustrated colonial civil servant. Blond, bronzed and rugged, Jimmy Riddle is district commissioner of darkest Alabasa province in an unnamed British Colony in West Africa, a living legend to his fellow officers, and the sex-dreamboat of their wistful wives. In the end, Riddle turns against his own bumbling government, gets together with the Balabasa of Alabasa, the paramount chief and head of the Python Cult, and declares Alabasa an independent...
...Jebel Tubeiq. Recently at El Jafr, the company has moved prudently from water hole to water hole, will soon reach Petra, where, according to local legend, Moses struck the rock that gushed water. ¶ On Vieques, an island nine miles off the east coast of Puerto Rico, Director Peter Brook is doing a film version of William Golding's superb novel, Lord of the Flies, in which 30 boys, aged six to twelve, are stranded on a desert island without any adults. They elect a leader, explore the island, go fishing, and things move along at a Disneying pace...
...Polo Association rates players, in ascending order of ability, from zero to ten goals. Only two men have the top, ten-goal rating: Cecil Smith, 57, a former cowpuncher now with the Hinsdale, Ill., Oak Brook club; and Bob Skene, who plays with teams in San Mateo and Menlo Park, Calif...
...bill was introduced by Manhattan Republican Assemblyman John R. Brook at the request of the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall. It was none too soon to draw the line, said Brook. If the trend had been allowed to continue, he warned, "we might soon have found such fine institutions as St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Red Cross, Columbia University or the American Legion linked with diapers, liquors and fertilizers...
...idea seemed to be that Jânío was hell-bent to achieve a totally independent position halfway between the U.S. and the Communist bloc, and would brook no argument. Late in the week, he announced that Brazil might well vote both for Red China's admission to the United Nations and the Khrushchev plan to "reorganize" the U.N. into complete impotence. As for the rumbling all this aroused among some politicians and military men, Quadros vowed, "There are only two ways to block my course: to depose me or assassinate...