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Jordan's Crown Prince Mohammed, 20, madcap brother of worldly and fairly wise King Hussein, who is four years older tooled through the crowded streets of Amman with his aide in his car and bowled over a hapless pedestrian. A hostile mob converged on Mohammed's royal presence. Somebody in the car started shooting, killed at least one, winged several others. Mohammed, in a bad version of a Middle Eastern western, then fled to his brother's palace. Hussein, brought close to the ignition point by his brother's antics, rushed off to condole the bereaved...
...widespread use of sheep droppings in producing an organically based diet and thus a sound society. But more than the shortage of sheep droppings is needed to explain the anemia of English society between the general strike of 1926 and World War II, and the madcap Mitford story charts some of the more alarming symptoms of a class in deep trouble with history and itself...
BRITISH Cartoonist Ronald Searle, who drew this week's summit cover (his first for TIME), is recognized as one of the best of Great Britain's talented covey of cartoonists. Searle won a national reputation before he was 30 for his madcap cartoons of "St. Trinian's Girls' School," whose bloomered, black-stockinged, altogether fiendish young ladies roasted oxen in their rooms, made dissenters walk the plank, fired machine guns down the halls ("Girls! Girls! A little less noise please"). He spread his humor through weekly features for Punch and London's News Chronicle, including...
...command his madcap mission, Scriptwriter Estridge appoints an aging Kipling Stripling, Captain Scott (Kenneth More), and to follow him he assembles an improbable rout of colonial types: the pudgy little rajah (Govind Raja Ross), his noisy American governess (Lauren Bacall), the British governor's unflappable wife (Ursula Jeans) and dithering secretary (Wilfrid Hyde White), a nefarious newsman (Herbert Lorn), two stolid Sikhs attached to primordial machine guns, a charming person (I.S. Johar) who runs locomotives, and an unspeakable person (Eugene Deckers) who runs guns. They all pile into an ancient passenger car drawn by a wondrously dilapidated steam engine...
...Plume de Ma Tante. If the producers of this madcap French revue chance to do a sequel, the late Wallace Stevens provided a title: Le Monocle de Mon Oncle...