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...richer lode will be tapped if private U.S. capital can be lured back into Mexico. Last fortnight at Monterrey, Treasury Minister Ramon Beteta urged U.S. bankers to invest in Mexican Government bonds-"as safe and secure as any in the world." The bankers listened respectfully. But U.S. capital, once grievously burned by expropriation in Mexico, still fears the heat from the Revolution's embers...
...prospector who mined this lode was eupeptic Walter P. Paepcke (pronounced pepkey), founder and board chairman of Container Corp. of America. He first saw Aspen about a year and a half ago, on a skiing expedition from his Colorado dude ranch. The dilapidated houses, barns and chicken coops-remains of a town that once had 16 hotels, an opera house and three theaters-were depressing. But the breathtaking scenery made Mr. Paepcke, a deep-breathing man of many ideas, take a deep breath...
...Window, which stirred personalities, poetry and politics into a uniquely Irish stew; Liberal Franz Schoenberner's Confessions of a European Intellectual, which touched more gaily than profoundly on the soul of European man; Tory Poet-Essayist Osbert SitwelPs The Scarlet Tree, which drew pay-dirt from the inexhaustible lode of English aristocratic peculiarities...
During the war, some Tass correspondents in France, Italy and Africa never cabled a line; they wore Red Army uniforms, were good mixers, busily gathered military intelligence. And in Ottawa there was Nikolai Zheivinov, who lasted until last September- shortly after Embassy Lode Clerk Igor Gouzenko tattled to the police about the spy ring. Then Zheivinov quietly returned to Russia. Canadian officials found he was hip-deep in espionage, and a member of the NKVD...
Readers will not have to dig much farther than this into The King's General to know that Daphne du Maurier has again struck pay dirt in the same lode that produced her best-selling Rebecca and Jamaica Inn. Her new novel (the Literary Guild's January selection) is a hose-and-doublet pageant of the English Civil War (1642 to 1646) for which Miss du Maurier's agent has whispered loudly to Hollywood that $250,000 will do. The chief characters of The King's General are mostly out of English history; .heir lusty, gusty...