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...Climate of Eden (adapted by Moss Hart from Edgar Mittelholzer's novel Shadows Move Among Them) is unusual in itself and more unusual for Moss Hart. This time Hart is neither sandpapering comedy gags nor polishing dramatic commonplaces. He has been lured to the jungle of British Guiana, where an odd kind of missionary lives with his odd kind of family, and where there arrives, shell-shocked by civilization, a tense and neurotic English nephew...
Although I told you recently that TIME'S circulation office was not equipped to handle barter transactions. Dave Ballard. circulation manager for TIME-LIFE International, has just made an exception to the rule, with no questions asked. Subscriber Claude Winter wrote him from British Guiana: "You'll find enclosed ... a half-carat diamond ... to extend my subscription to TIME as far as it will go ... I hope you'll grant this request. I'm working in the hinterland of this country, with an interest in diamond mining, and I'm situated far from most civilized...
...exact coordinates of the Orinoco's source: Lat. 2° 25 min. 30 sec. North, Long. 63° 45 min. 31 sec. West. Then, in 1943, a Brazilian boundary-setting expedition claimed that it had found the source 30 miles to the west. U.S. Army flyers from British Guiana helped to confirm the location of the river's origin...
...Golgotha through the rest of his life. Only a brief sample of Lagerkvist, it nevertheless commanded respect. Two other foreign novels, hard to classify, showed skill with out-of-the-way locales. Edgar Mittelholzer's Shadows Move Among Them dealt with a highly unconventional missionary in British Guiana. From Haiti came The Pencil of God, by Pierre Marcelin and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin, a fascinating study of the power of voodoo...
Shadows Move Among Them, by Edgar Mittelhölzer. Uninhibited high jinks about a singularly unorthodox missionary in British Guiana, somewhat befogged by the suggestion that the high jinks add up to ethical Utopia (TIME, Sept...