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...keeping with the royal tradition that a Thai king should spend some time as a priest (like any devout male commoner). Phumiphon, saffron-robed, barefoot and shaven-pated, had turned his kingdom into the hands of Queen Sirikit, 24, who acted as regent during the King's religious furlough...
...TRAIN WAS ON TIME, by Heinrich Böll (142 pp.; Criterion; $3), carries its Eastern-front German soldier-hero to his death while he is still on furlough in the Ukraine, which is about as ironically far as the you-can't-win theme has ever been taken by a war novelist. The soldier, Andreas, is a kind of displaced poet in uniform. From the moment his leave-train begins puffing towards Przemysl one autumn day in 1943, Andreas is haunted by the irrational idea that he is a bridegroom of death being rushed into one of destiny...
...effusive. Highballing away the nights and days in their hotel suites just as though they were in the good old Bellevue-Stratford, Jack Kelly's pals from Philly sent him practical jokes in the form of telegrams. "Report back to the Palace, Kelly," said one. "Your furlough is up." President Eisenhower's personal representative, Hotelman Conrad Hilton, on arrival brushed aside the suggestion that he might want to build a Monaco Hilton: "We never build in resorts or small towns...
...uniforms, Steiner and his men surprise four Russian front-line bunker crews, tommy-gun all of their sleepy-eyed occupants, except for one whom they use as a decoy in crossing over to their unbelieving buddies. Steiner is made a sergeant on the spot and gets a furlough, but all he and his men have really won is a brief reprieve, not a full pardon from death. The whole crumbling German front is itself a rearguard desperately parrying Russian advances and encirclements...
However, Bill Cleary is just on a two-week furlough from the Army, and Shepard won't be able to use him in this afternoon's 3 p.m. E.I.B.L. opener against Army at Soldiers Field...