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...reader first meets Mr. Hamish Gleave at the Derby. He is suitably dressed-morning coat, top hat-but there is a darn in his sock, and this darn becomes the whole darn thing...
...HAMISH GLEAVE (316 pp.)- Richard Llewellyn-Doubleday...
...Pink Was My Pally. Most intolerable to Mr. Hamish Gleave are the Americans-the eager-beaver young men from the State Department, who do not wear waistcoats, who take security leaks so seriously, and whose typists earn more than he does. If Novelist Llewellyn is to be believed, the anti-American feeling runs like a psychosis through much of the Foreign Office. Better, thinks Gleave, the Russians than the Yanks with their "sample cases and cigars." Better the naked power of the Soviet, which does not make him bitter about his frayed cuffs...
...writing, this book should be set beside Ralph de Toledano's account of the Hiss case, Humphrey Slater's Conspirator, and Rebecca West's The Meaning of Treason. It is debatable just how "true" Llewellyn's analysis is. But there is no doubt that Mr. Hamish Gleave points to a serious troubling in Britain's soul. And it again raises the haunting questions which the official report put this way: "First, how Maclean and Burgess remained in the Foreign Service for so long, and second, why they were able to get away...
...number one tennis slot Hamish Gravem beat Al Schilling in three sets, 6-2, 5-7, and 6-3. St. Mark's got their only victory when Peter Moore defeated second-ranked Brooks Harris...