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...occur to the editors to proclaim a hero it described as "the most cherished citizen since Theodore Roosevelt" as Man of the Year. In those vividly irreverent days, TIME, in the midst of much praise, noted Charles A. Lindbergh's large feet, and ruefully recorded: "Eleanor Glyn avers he lacks...
Reviewing the production, and indirectly the novel, the Daily Mail found it merely boring, and the London Times suggested that Lady Chatterley is "basically Elinor Glyn scattered with a lot of specious philosophizing...
...soldier, and when he reached gun-bearing age, he served in the Gold Coast Regiment in Takoradi (Ghana), getting a good look at both British and French West Africa. The central character of his first novel, set in a British colony on the edge of independence, is Lieut. Michael Glyn, an English lad of good family and education who has no sense of vocation for his job and is emotional to the point of hysteria. This is the sort of man who has the hopeless task of working out an orderly turnover to a native government after the new country...
Things end badly for both Glyn and the British forces, but that is hardly the point. What Novelist Caute shows expertly is a process of decline and fall coupled with an opposing, ominous rise that is by now the ruling cliché of half the world's troubles. The whites cannot even withdraw gracefully; they are paralyzed by native hatred that scarcely attempts to hide its emotions. And what the country faces when the British do leave is all too obvious. Kofi Bandaya, a Lumumba type, runs the People's Progressive Party with a lust for power that...
British officials, leary of creating any nationalist Welsh martyrs, have been desultory in trying to track down the illegal broadcasters. At week's end, the Freedom Station popped up in West Wales for the first time, and boasted two new transmitters. Said the man named Glyn: "This is just the beginning...