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South of the Mason-Dixon line...
Divorced. James Mason, 55, etched-in-acid British cinemactor (Lolita); by Pamela Mason, 46, radio and TV commentator; on grounds of extreme mental cruelty (she dropped the original charge of "habitual adultery"); after 23 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Settlement: approximately $1,500,000. "A fleabite," said James...
...hero of the novel answers to the name of Mason Jarrett, but he strongly resembles guntherized Gunther. A rumpled bear of a man, working for a Chicago paper, he covers all southeastern Europe from Istanbul to Prague. Jarrett also has Gunther's herculean capacity for hard work, his shrewd journalistic intuition, the same flair for intimate background stories about nations and their leaders; and he is in on every major event from Austria's abortive 1931 attempt to form a customs union with Germany to its four-day civil war in February 1934, when the fascist Heitnwehr militia...
Journalist Gunther, who wrote two best-forgotten novels when he was Mason Jarrett's age, has yearned for years to bring off a fictional tour de force. This is not it, though it is sometimes absorbing when it approaches the factual memoir of vintage Vienna that he might have written instead-and still should. As Gunther himself put it some years ago, "How can you write about boy meets girl when you had Hitler and Mussolini next door...
...TIME agrees that Pamela Mason was indulging in colorful hyperbole when she stated flatly that "Hedda Hopper doesn't write her own column...