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...race. Britain sparkles with optimism. London is a city with new buildings brushing shoulders with the old ..." Novelist Shute-an aeronautical engineer whose full name is Nevil Shute Norway-was sparkling with optimism too. The new, noncontroversial The Rainbow and the Rose was wallowing in the wet black ink after a prepublication sale of 100,000 copies...
...from Britain, and ever since, his pranks have been the pub chatter of the natives. A sun-cured, white-bearded bachelor of 52, White lives alone except for the hedgehogs, snakes and hawks that he favors as pets. His absentmindedness is legend. When he is writing-in green ink with a quill pen-friends have to remind White...
...hole per year to keep up the golf course, another $1,000 to keep up each tennis court, etc., etc.-all of which are maintained for the pleasure of a relatively few members. The $100,000 swimming pool, open from May 30 to Labor Day, flows with red ink...
...famed dictum-"God is dead"-was translated into a scandalous joke. Jarry enthusiastically drank absinthe and, near the end of his life, ether (he died at 34). At the theater he wore a dirty white canvas suit and a makeshift paper shirt with the tie painted on in India ink. He was, said Gide, "an incredible figure . . . plaster-faced . . . gotten up like a circus clown and acting a fantastic, strenuously contrived role which showed no human characteristic." He often carried firearms. Once he was shooting the tops off champagne bottles lined up against a wall behind which some children were...
Hope has arrived as a great many people thought it would--not in expensive bindery or elaborate engraving. But on poor paper, mimeographed, adless, and bearing the unmistakable smell of ink. Voices goes on sale today, and if you can't always make out the words because of the publishing process, it's at least worth the effort...