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...died; a 230-mile railroad, built to carry rubber from Bolivia, cost 70 lives a mile to build. In Manaus, the rubber tycoons built mansions and watched Pavlova dance in a $10 million opera house. Then England's Henry Wickham smuggled rubber tree seeds to London's Kew Gardens and on to the Far East, where efficient plantations broke Brazil's monopoly. Now Brazil buys Malayan rubber...
...Fountain's fatal weakness is an unnatural and very unmusical style of dialogue. Modeled on Victorian storybooks for young readers (e.g., "Children, is it not about this time that the lapegeria comes out at Kew?"), it makes all the characters, without exception, sound like awkward, clockwork dolls. Too bad, because Rebecca West's descriptions of period colors, clothes, homes and mealtimes recapture the world of half a century ago as brightly as a painted canvas...
...Kew Gardens...
Spectacular Job-Hunt. Of 18 bridges in the heart of London, the Mad Major had shot 15, missing Hungerford, Barnes and Kew because "the rising currents were tricky . . . and I didn't want to take any risks." Then he flew back to the Herts & Essex Airplane Club and stepped out on to the tarmac, a splendid, grey-haired figure (6 ft. 2 in.) in blue blazer and the wings of the Royal Aero Club. "I feel absolutely marvelous, marvelous," he said, ticking off the bridges as if they were fallen Fokkers...
Ignoring the machine's candidate, he hammered away at Shenker, at gamblers, bosses, and rackets. He kept plugging the fact that Shenker is one of St. Louis' busiest criminal lawyers, that he represented such big-time gamblers as C. J. ("Kew-pie") Rich and Bookie James J. Carroll before the Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee (TIME, March 5). When Shenker announced that he would run his law practice to suit himself, Bakewell cried out that "a vote for Shenker is a vote for gamblers...