Word: rachel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RACHEL CADE (320 pp.)-Charles Mercer-Putnam...
This is the story of an American missionary nurse's love affair with Africa. Slim, thirtyish Rachel Cade can take sex or leave it alone, but she is not really interested in it. She quits her first post because a married doctor keeps breathing amorously on her neck. At her next post, Dibela, in the Belgian Congo, the resident doctor dies the night she arrives, leaving her the only white within miles. In short order she climbs the sacred Mountains of the Moon and invites a couple of thahus (curses) from the local medicine men. So there...
...does not stay alone for long, however, because people keep dropping in. First, there is a U.S. doctor named Paul Wilton, the only survivor of a plane crash in the jungle. Since Dibela needs his medical skills, Rachel has a purposeful affair with him, even manages to convince herself that they are in love, and bears his illegitimate child (after he leaves). The next arrival is Caleb Aldrich, a malarial preacher who loves Africa nearly as much as Rachel does, and they both settle down to properly married life among the Bantus-not before hesitant Caleb has been pulled together...
...title of "Miss Radcliffe" was first given to Rachel Mellinger '52 the following year. Again the "prettiest annex freshman" from a class of 239 was chosen at the PBH tea dance...
...adequate in all of them, and in a few (as the widower in Rachel and the Stranger, as the psychopath in The Dark Past) he was better than that. But whenever he took his fight for better parts to the front office, he got the same cold shoulder and the same cold talk: "Face it, kid. You got no sex appeal. What can you do with that face? It looks like a baby's behind." Bill took such talk and came back for more. For the first time in his life he was really fighting-not for Pasadena...