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...publicly observed affair with British War Correspondent Mark Elliott, and having kissed, she proceeded to tell in A Many-Splendored Thing (TIME. Dec. 8, 1952"). When Elliott was killed in Korea. Han Suyin declared that love could never come again. But only months later she had married a British policeman whose job was fighting Communists in Malaya. Now comes . . . And the Rain My Drink, not unnaturally a near novel about Malaya, in which the nicest white character is a British cop whose job it is to run down Communists. The People Inside. The book's narrator is "Suyin...
...motorcycle policeman raced his engine and moved menacingly toward the mob. "They used to use horses in the old days," shouted a greyhaired man with a Furcolo button...
...more costly in that Too Late the Phalarope has to fuse a variety of themes and a welter of relationships, while the story's very background is imperious. The play involves the division between the Afrikaners and the English as well as between whites and blacks. Its young policeman hero (Barry Sullivan) -who, by sinning with a native girl, tragically violates both the law and a relentless social code-stands in as fissuring a relationship to his bigoted Puritan father (Finlay Currie) as to his narrow, unresponsive wife. There are half a dozen sources of voltage and half...
...role of the father is less complex than that of the policeman, but Finlay Currie makes his portrayal something of an acting achievement. A proud descendant of the original Dutch settlers whose beliefs are based on the Bible and the sanctity of the white race, he is filled with a narrow-minded sort of grandeur. Currie succeeds, nevertheless, in making him human...
Tons of rain sweeping across the island at speeds of up to 156 m.p.h. breached sea walls, wrecked the Ryukyus Command building, reduced 3rd Marine Division headquarters to rubble and killed a military policeman. While Okinawa's 40,000 Americans shook inside their typhoon-proof but half-flooded houses, World War II Quonset huts were hurled into paddies and wrapped around telegraph poles. Thirty-five hours later, Okinawans found 7,000 homes and 80 public buildings totally destroyed, 27 fishing boats wrecked. Gone was 40% of the island's precious rice crop, 80% of the sweet-potato crop...