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KUMARI (287 pp.)-William Buchan -Morrow...
...home of one of them in Vincent Square. Giggling like schoolboys, they were all rounded up in the darkness of the respectable old square to await the strategic moment when they would swoop into the House of Commons by the back door and take Tory Whip Patrick Buchan-Hepburn by surprise. Swoop they did, just as the vote was held, to defeat the government forces by a majority of four...
Churchill was working five or six hours a day, eating heartily, and doughtily disregarding the advice of his doctors to stay on the wagon. Among the visitors: Tory Chief Whip Patrick Buchan-Hepburn (usually consulted on Cabinet changes), Housing Minister Harold Macmillan, and Labor Minister Sir Walter Monckton...
Shoot First (Raymond Stress-United Artists) is the latest pedestrian movie to try a climb up John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps. Despite a slick script by British Whodunit Expert Eric Ambler, the film trips over its own footage...
...Correspondent Alistair Cooke, but it is usually a flattering picture of "Shakespeare, dignified gentlemen, and so on," while Britons, from their press, often think the U S is made up of "jukeboxes, gangsters and glistening bathing beauties." A false image is being projected," wrote London Sunday Observer Correspondent Alastair Buchan, "of an America where liberals are hounded with bell, book and candle and where people who hold unpopular opinions are afraid to open their mouths...