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...Squire Mytton (born 1796), known to his friends as "Mango, the King of the Pickles." was so rich that he yearned for discomfort. Wintertimes, Mytton went hunting wearing as little as possible, once horrified the gamekeepers by duck hunting in the nude. He once cured himself of hiccups by putting a candle to his nightgown: "enveloped in flames," he was soon too badly burned to burp. Despite his Spartan attire, Mytton "had a hundred and fifty-two pairs of trousers," spent half a million pounds in 15 years, died of d.t.s in a debtor's prison...
Stewart also contributes the only creative work of the issue, a sort of opium illusion called "A Mango For Emelina." Magnolia-mashed Colonel Ashcroft ("a memento of a dead nation's long ago Armageddon") stalks to a garden rendezvous with his boyhood love, Emelina. As he bends to kiss...
Ricardo Montalban, as Koli, fills the role, but with nothing special. He has one good song, a Calypso mockery of mankind called "Monkey in a Mango Tree." Josephine Premice, as the opportunistic second-to-most-eligible female around, is first rate, especially in "Leave the Atom Alone," an amusing try by the show's authors to be socially significant. Ossie Davis does well as her occasional beau, Erik Rhodes as the exaggerated British governor of the island, Augustine as a lovable urchin, and Adelaide Hall as a homey, cloud-reading sage...
...China, a country the size of Kansas, was in line to receive economic aid from both West and East. As usual, the U.S. was first with the mostest ($88 million in two years). New hotels, cabarets and bungalows gave a festive air to Pnompenh, the capital, while under the mango trees, cruising Tampa-blue four-hole Buicks bore saffron-robed bonzes (Buddhist priests) to gilded pagodas. By an ingenious integration, American dredges were soon filling in ground for a Russian hospital, and U.S. farm machinery was being used to boost the corn and peanut crop for export to Red China...
...tropical sun. Each morning, thousands of Negroes bicycle into downtown Leo to work in the shipyards and offices. Evenings, they stream homeward to the jumble of shacks, tenements, modern homes and tastefully built hospitals that make up "black Leo." In the darkness, millions of candles glow under the mango trees where Negro market women do a roaring trade in bread, beer and dried fish, green-and-brown-striped caterpillars (a delicacy when fried in deep fat) and blackened lumps of elephant meat...