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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recognized quality (perhaps also a pipe), adopts his middle name for use colloquially (reserving his first initial as a prefix to his universally respected signature), and enters Harvard. Once here, he soon verses himself in Henry James, and obtains a lock of hair from the cranium of F. L. Seidel, himself a great Advocate critic a couple of years ago, a man than which there was no meaner Martini mixer. Experience becomes instinct, and criticism is much easier than it looks: reject stories written by those who are not your friends, particularly unwashed people; accept stories containing delectable bons mots...
Barthélémy Boganda, 48, stoutish Premier of Ubangi-Shari in French Equatorial Africa, which now bears the ambitious name of the Central African Republic. It is a land of which it is said that the majority live in the Stone Age, and the advanced people live in the Middle Ages. The son of a witch doctor who claimed to have eaten human flesh, Boganda became a Roman Catholic priest, was unfrocked after he went to Paris as a Deputy and married his French secretary. A prosperous coffee planter and shrewd politician who likes to spout Latin phrases...
...Léopold-Sédar Senghor, 52, the grand old man of Senegalese politics, widely regarded as Africa's foremost intellectual. An opinionated and brilliant man, the son of wealthy Catholic parents, Senghor started his career as a teacher in the Parisian Lycée Louis-le-Grand, which traditionally gets the cream of Sorbonne graduates for its faculty. He fought with the French as an infantryman in World War II, joined the Resistance, became a literary lion in Paris after publication of his poems, Chantes d'Ombre. His second wife is a Frenchwoman...
...FELLOW DEVILS, by L. P. Hartley (413 pp.; British Book Centre; $3.95), introduces wealthy, prim and Protestant Margaret Pennefather, who hesitates when glamorous Colum Maclnnes proposes marriage. Not only is he a Roman Catholic but his origins are vague; though he has gone to an approved public school, Nick Burden and other classmates think him rather a bounder. Worse, Colum is a film star who looks like Marlon Brando and plays gangsters and crooks...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1) 2. Lolita, Nabokov (2) 3. Exodus, Uris (3) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5) 6. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (6) 7. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver 8. Lady L., Gary (8) 9. Tenderloin, Adams 10. The Best of Everything, Jaffe...