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...determine who the bikinied girl might be. An Adelaide man wondered if it could be his missing daughter, who had loved to hand-feed kangaroos near their former home. Steve Patupis, owner of Eucla's sole watering hole, the Amber Motel, suggested that "she" might be an itinerant Englishman who had disappeared from the motel last year, leaving his luggage behind...
...Drums by R.F. Delderfield. 253 pages. Simon & Schuster. $5.95. The author has had two more or less adult books (God Is an Englishman, Theirs Was the Kingdom) on the bestseller lists. This one skillfully concentrates on a slightly different audience, using a story about class consciousness, a camp follower with a heart of gold, courage, and coming of age in the British army's retreat from Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. A discreet amour in a moonlit glade is an agreeable throwback to the decorous ways of Horatio Hornblower...
...covered the U.S. role in the proceedings. William Marmon, born in Richmond, once taught Latin in Greece, later covered the war in Viet Nam. Last week Marmon, along with David Aikman, analyzed China's probable impact on the U.N. (and vice versa). Aikman, an Englishman, has a doctorate in Chinese and Russian history, and is fluent in eight languages...
There are three things that every Englishman seems to have: a pet, an umbrella and a Lew Grade story. As Britain's most prominent show-business entrepreneur, jowly, Goldwynesque Lew Grade enjoys a following that is not so much doting as anecdoting. His custom-made, 7¾-in. Cuban cigars are an indispensable prop of cartoonists. His multimillion-dollar deals get him lampooned as "Low Greed" in the satirical magazine Private Eye. He even has his own favorite story about himself. It concerns a little girl who asked him if he knew what two and two make. "Buying...
John Wilkes Booth at least had the grace to shout "Sic semper tyrannis!" Until lately, most political assassins have felt obliged to dress up their acts of public murder with some pretext of historic purpose. But the Jackal, an Englishman and pseudo gentleman, yearns for nothing more uplifting than the good life. When he gets an assignment from the OAS (France's antigovernment secret army of the early 1960s) to do in Charles de Gaulle, he looks on it simply as a "once in a lifetime job." If he brings it off, he will be able to retire...