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WEST WITH THE NIGHT-Beryl Markham-Houghton Mlfflin...
West With The Night is a tough, un even, undisciplined, sometimes remarkable, often annoying book-chiefly about Aviatrix Beryl Markham's experiences in the hot blue skies and green hills of Africa. Author Markham reveals herself as a self-made extravert, a museum sample of 20th-century primitivism at its simplest. Her harsh, keen story is a sort of Diana myth brought up to date...
With Aniline in good hands, Custodian Crowley seized two other alien properties last week, and also appointed a new deputy custodian. The deputy: James Markham, a tall, grey-haired lawyer from Lowell, Mass., who has been a Crowley crony since he went to be Solicitor for Crowley's FDIC in 1933. The seizures...
...native dialects, who had written many schoolbooks and translated the New Testament into Kate (pronounced Kah-teh), the hill natives' language which Finschhafen had adopted. There was brave, 63-year-old Rev. Stephan Lehner, who first brought God's word to the Laewomba cannibals in the Markham Valley. He won them by hanging cloth, paring knives and tobacco on a dead tree by a river-in native sign language, a surety that he was their friend...
Last week, from bombed and suddenly excited Port Moresby, came a strange tale about Finschhafen. According to the story, the Japs at Finschhafen had found guides to lead them through the jungles* toward airdrome sites in the Markham Valley. With missionaries or their native pupils for guides, tough Jap troops might even find a way 200 miles through the jungles and over the mountains to Port Moresby by land. According to the story, the Lutherans had abandoned their coastal missions and retired to the jungles. In one mission house Australian militia found Nazi arm bands and pennants...