Word: colins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marie O'Hara is pretty, and Colin, her escort, is falling-down drunk, so it is only natural for the nightclub pianist who is the nameless narrator-hero of this novel to offer help. Even as the trio sways "like a chorus line" through the nighttime streets of North London, the pianist feels drawn to the girl beyond the call of gentlemanly duty. When Marie invites him upstairs for a meal a few days later, his mind fairly boils with mingled hopes and doubts. For though "there was once a time, a golden age, when such an invitation could...
CITY OF SPADES (255 pp.)-Colin MacInnes-Macmillan...
...this sociological theme, British Novelist Colin MacInnes has fashioned a book that for most of its length is as jaunty and bitterly Jumble-joking as the Spades themselves. Johnny MacDonald Fortune, 18, is the lad in from Lagos, Nigeria, wearing a white and crimson sweater, a nylon shirt with gold safety pins on each collar point, and a sky-blue gabardine jacket. The first thing he does in London, for the sky-blue hell of it, is to clamber up a down escalator. And in a sense that is what he does in rundown London for the rest...
...Confidential. Reviewmen dashed about Paris after dark armed with gluepot and brush, illegally plastered posters on handy walls (one ended up on the lavatory ceiling of the Café du Dôme); others peddled subscriptions from door to door. One early salesman: England's waspish young man Colin (The Outsider) Wilson, who absentmindedly went off with a week's collections. Circulation reached the impressive figure (among the literary magazine set) of 7,000. But Review still lost money. In the summer of 1956 an unlikely angel came to its rescue and became publisher: Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan...
This sum was presented following a symposium featuring talks by Dean Bundy on "The State of Harvard College" and Dean Bender on "Admissions to the College of Your Choice." Richard T. Davis, H. Shippen Goodhue, R. Colin MacLauren, and Thomas Motley II made the presentation for the Class...