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...army. Bounced out of India by Indian independence, he has bounced right back again, figuratively, at least, with a self-imposed burden of Kiplingesque dimensions. The burden: to write 35 novels about the land of purdah and pukka sahibs, covering the rise and fall of British imperial rule. Bhowani Junction is 39-year-old Author Masters' fourth, and a Book-of-the-Month-Club choice for April. It covers part of the fall...
...BHOWANI JUNCTION (394 pp.)-John Masters-Viking...
Three of Bhowani Junction'?, main characters take turns at telling the story, which hangs on the problems of a group Americans know little about. In India, there are many names for them-Anglo-Indians, Eurasians, half-castes, chee-chees, blacky-whites, eight-annas.* Victoria Jones, an eight-anna girl, is "the color of dark ivory." She is a lush beauty with come-hither eyes and a figure that would make an hourglass seem angular. But in 1946. with the British on their way out of India, Victoria's problem is acute. ("We couldn't become English, because...
Musically, the picture offers a reminiscent run-through of almost all the old Glenn Miller favorites (In the Mood, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Pennsylvania 6-5000, Tuxedo Junction, Little Brown Jug), though Louis Armstrong, playing a pie-eyed piper in one scat session, may make the audience wish for a few wild minutes that this were Armstrong's story and not Miller...
Better Be Good. It turns out music, medical books, Bibles, hymnals, Britain's Dictionary of National Biography, Fowler's Modern English Usage, children's stories, books on Geodesy and Eigen junction Expansions, and such bestsellers as Toynbee's Study of History and Jim Corbett's Man-Eaters of Kumaon...