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...finances for the trip to, and possibly from, Tibet, Duke says that the Brigade "does not yet have sufficient funds to send over a large group." It is hoped that volunteers will be able to provide themselves with arms and passage to either Calcutta or Formosa. The Brigade will give them the names of "contacts" at these places to guide them to the hitherto undetermined mustering point...
Flying in C-47's over the Hump from Calcutta to Kunming could be frightening. Sometimes they would run into storms and go down, he recalls, and "You'd always wonder whether you were going to make it. One night fourteen planes went down...
...unusual, then, that seven years ago a young commercial artist in Calcutta pawned his wife's jewels to rent a creaking, out-of-date movie camera. With a few of his actor-friends, Satyajit Ray left Calcutta one Sunday for an isolated village to the north. In that village, without building a single set or even clearing the yard, where much of the action takes place, he began filming Pather Panchali ("Song of the Road"). It was the first time he had ever operated a camera...
...hinges. "Bursting with ideas for plays and poems," he works as a rent collector as his pile of unpublished manuscripts grows higher and higher. When Mother complains that the children are undernourished. Father--decent man that he is--drops his pen, rolls up his scrolls, and heads for Calcutta to earn some rice-money...
Storyteller Masters, Calcutta-born Englishman-turned-American, whose tales of India (Nightrunners of Bengal, Coroman-del!) are full of a mysterious yeast, explains how he hit on Fandango Rock as a title. "Once, in a narrow street in Zaragoza, late at night, there were two radios" -one playing "the subtle, introspective, and uncompromising rhythms of a fandango," the other whanging out "a rock-and-roll, simple, outgoing-and uncompromising." Masters hits his moment of truth with this gone lyric...