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Visiting China for the first time in 30 years, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein failed to recognize a bush-bearded chap whose portrait hung on the wall of a textile factory in Peking. Informed that it was a likeness of Karl Marx, Montgomery snapped: "He needs a haircut." Monty's general impression of China after five days: "There are great misconceptions in the Western world about the new China. I find the Chinese people to be happy and cheerful, whereas in the West it is considered that the Chinese people are very depressed and unhappy." Then he handed...
...forms and settled attitudes that only mellowness can explain. No great-man theories of history will satisfy him, no view of the past that dwells on great events and revolves around the doers and shakers of the moment. Clio, he is convinced, cares for the little man, the steady chap who tends the store and provides the hardly discernible backbone that supports the homely burdens. And Auden can make his peace with an entire universe seem like wry resignation...
Before his fate is settled, a sharp-witted U.S. vice consul takes a hand, and this plot twist may cause flutters of optimism at the Department of State. Novelist Ambler's consular chap, a quiet American but no chump, may well be the U.S.'s first foreign representative to receive polite fictional treatment since Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd...
...Last December he got an advice-seeking telephone call from a friend who, after answering a want ad in the New York Times, had had an offer of $18 to ghostwrite a term paper for a Manhattan college student. Benson decided to follow up. Posing as a well-educated chap named Mike Benson, he got in touch with the agency that had hired his friend, also sent letters to nine other agencies advertising in the Sunday Times. Benson's first overture produced the ghost test-taking assignment at Columbia's Teachers College. His letters produced a response from...
...readers of lending-library triangle stories will have no trouble appreciating. The enraged husband divorces his wife; years later they meet again. She is now another man's concubine and he is remarried; but love conquers, they go into a clinch, and all is forgiven. Being a decent chap, the hero keeps his new wife as well...