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...gained control of a piece of land almost the size of New England. In Paris, criticism of the government's conduct of the war was harsh. Leading French administrators, e.g., Saar Ambassador Gilbert Grandyal, were shying away from service in the crumbling Associated States. But last week Premier Rene Mayer nonetheless found a new and promising commander in chief for Indo-China: General Henri Eugene Navarre, oldtime cavalryman and armored-force officer...
...Ireland's "Mick" Mannock (73 kills), U.S.'s Raoul Lufbery (17 kills). Other aces survived to make their marks on the brave new world: Eastern Air Lines President Eddie Rickenbacker (26), "Billy" Bishop (72), World War II commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force, France's Rene Fonck (75), who collaborated with Vichy, Hermann Goring (22), a celebrated suicide...
When The Joyful Condemned opens, Rene has just lured a rookie cop to her room and run off with his trousers. And for the rest of the story, Rene and The Joyful Condemned tumble along to much the same tough, brawling pace as the opener. Kylie Tennant, a 41-year-old Australian woman novelist, appears to know the sharp side of Sydney almost as well as she knows how to turn a sharp sentence. Sample: "The waitresses were elderly, hard women who carried food reluctantly, but in the hope it might poison someone...
...Rene's escapades form the main plot. They take her on a quick whirl through reform school, a marathon party with some furloughing G.I.s, a brush with genteel do-gooders, and a near marriage with a U.S. soldier named Hotspot (Hotty for short), which is interrupted by the rude appearance of the cops. But The Joyful Condemned is the sort of novel that lavishly scatters half a dozen subplots and a small army of minor characters. Novelist Tennant tosses in a raucous riot scene in the girls' reformatory, a wild chapter in which two young racketeers...
...things. Says one of them: "I get fed up with people being nice and me not able to do a thing about it." Devoid of ordinary morals, they are convinced that all they need, for happiness, is a little luck. The cops are no great worry. As Big Rene says: "They can't kill you. Have to fill in too many forms...