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...HELM- John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). A yacht piles up on shore with a man and woman freshly dead of poison in the cockpit: she, the wife of a frozen-faced K.C.; he the son of a Purity Society officer. Inspector Jimmy Waghorn figures it all wrong until Dr. Priestley finally appears...
...line with press comments was Priestley's explanation of his silence. Said he in Glasgow a few days after quitting: "I've simply stopped my talks for a time because I think it's a good thing. The people get tired of hearing one voice, but if they're not tired and would like to get me back-well, I'm waiting in the wings...
...difficult man is Commentator Priestley. Feverishly insistent on getting his just due in BBC publicity, he once raised hell for two days after the London Times neglected to list his program. On another occasion, sharing a 15-minute overseas talk with Actor Leslie Howard, he stomped angrily around the studio, trumpeted within Howard's hearing that he couldn't write a good script for a program shared by "an actor fella." Always surcharged with temperament, he arrives at BBC headquarters at 8 or 9 for his overseas broadcasts, sulks fiercely if program directors and other minor officials...
While BBC without Priestley was having its troubles last week, German short wave was also striking squalls. Angry were U. S. newscasters at an order barring them from reporting anything but official news as supplied by D.N.B. between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. (air-raid hours in Berlin...
...FACE OF THE VERDICT-John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). Dr. Priestley, scientist, again works with Supt.Hanslet and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn. Major Bedworthy is drowned near Blacksand. Accident, says the jury. Maybe, says his friend and neighbor. Priestley plows around in rubber boots among motives of sex and money...