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Wings over western France and the English Channel no longer meant Spitfires or V-bombs. The National Club for Pigeon Races of London, in a great postwar revival, arranged for 3,500 birds to be taken in three airplanes to Bordeaux, the take-off point for a race to London...
Britain's hopes were pinned on her aging showman Henry Cotton, now 39. He rolled up to the Royal & Ancient clubhouse as haughty and pigeon-toed as ever, in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, dressed in a salmon-pink sweater and blowsy grey trousers. As usual, he did not smile, ignored his opponents, spoke only to his plump, wealthy Argentine wife who followed him around as his official marker. He commanded the largest gallery, and treated the crowd to a three-under-par 70. Then he was whisked back to swank Rosack's Marine Hotel for a massage...
...HORNED PIGEON (434 pp.)-George Millar-Doubleday...
...Horned Pigeon, his second book, explains why he was unhappy and what he did during the first years of the war. The sorrow, as revealed in a tasteless postscript: his wife no longer loved him. The rest of the book is as remarkable in its way as Waiting in the Night. It gives a vivid, highly individual, often humorous picture of life as a prisoner...
Getaway. From Munich it was a clean getaway across Germany to Strasbourg, across France slowly to Perpignan. He climbed wearily over the Pyrenees into Spain, eventually reached the British Consulate at Barcelona. Horned Pigeon is an almost day-by-day account of these adventures, in the tradition of Cage-Birds, The Tunnelers of Holzminden and other "escape books" of World War I. Like them it makes exciting reading, until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage...