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...Tales of the South Pacific, tells what happens during the early days of the war in the Pacific to some naval officers, men and nurses on a U.S-held island in the New Hebrides. Nurse Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) falls in love Some Enchanted Evening with a middle-aged French planter (Rossano Brazzi). Marine Lieut. Joseph Cable (John Kerr) meanwhile engages in some Happy Talk with a native girl named Liat (France Nuyen), who dances around looking Younger Than Springtime on an island called Bali Ha'i. And the sailors, inspired by a Seabee named Luther Billis (Ray Walston), mill...
...stolid, dour lawyer, Adams reversed tradition by beginning as a moderate and moving to the left. On coming home from Oxford in 1925, he won his first seat in the legislature through the influence of a planter. But he was soon attacking the "dictatorship" of the landowners, and when Depression-struck sugar workers rioted in 1937, Adams was blamed by the governor for inciting the violence...
...once acquired an empire in what has been called a fit of absentmindedness, are now writing novels about its loss in the same detached, faintly surprised style. Anthony Glyn, 35, is by heredity both an empire builder, with ancestors in the Canadian hinterland and personal service as an apprentice planter in British Guiana, and a novelist: his grandmother Elinor set the century's early decades aflame with Three Weeks. Grandson Glyn has written an insider's account of the last outposts...
...Haiti, the peaceful election ended a hectic ten months of intermittent rioting and revolt during which six governments tumbled and two election attempts failed. Mild-mannered Dr. François Duvalier swept the countryside, rolled over the city majorities won by Planter Louis Déjoie, and emerged with 71% of the 950,000 votes cast. Some fraud was unquestionably committed; e.g., primitive, roadless La Gonave Island, with 13,300 voters in 1950, reported 18,941 Duvalier ballots to 463 for Déjoie. A hard-working doctor who has spent years working to eliminate yaws in Haiti...
...much thinking about once it is put down, but while the story lasts, the reader is firmly held by the question of whether Emmet Booth will finally win. His pursuit of Miranda has the tried and true fascination of that famous cliche from East-of-Suez movies: the beautiful planter's wife playing Chopin while, across the terrace, a large speckled snake glides towards the heroine, ready to strike that lovely neck...