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Died. Primula Rollo Niven, 28, pretty ex-WAAF war bride of British Cinemactor David Niven (who met her in a slit trench during an air raid); of a head injury (suffered in a tumble down unlighted stairs); in Hollywood...
...CONQUERORS (276 pp.)-Niven Busch-Harper...
Readers-and Mark-discover the awful truth about Corinne in the last few pages of this new novel by Niven Busch (Duel in the Sun; They Dream of Home).* Mark and Corinne have top billing in the book, but Author Busch attempts to show what was happening in the lives of a dozen different people (including an old diplomat, a top sergeant, a fighting liberal) during V-J day's wild rejoicing. Day of the Conquerors is not so deep as a well nor so wide as a psychiatrist's door, but it is fast-paced, triple-gaited...
Best actor: James Mason (said he: "My thanks and good wishes to all . . . who voted for me. . . . I can't commend their judgment"). Laurence Olivier was fourth, Robert Donat fifth, the late Leslie Howard seventh, David Niven tenth...
...made fiction look almost as strange as truth. They are hounded by blackmailers; they are tortured still more severely by their inability to trust each other; they come at last to a surprise ending which, in the novel, had much the force of a mule's kick. Scripters Niven Busch and Harry Ruskin have had to tinker amazingly little with this hideous story...