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Spain is still a no man's land of ideas, but a historian old enough (at 30) to be interested, and young enough not to have been personally committed, has now moved into the field. Hugh Thomas, whose background is Cambridge, the British Foreign Office and Sandhurst, has, by his own account, consulted nearly a thousand books in five great libraries and in five languages to lend weight to his massive reappraisal of Spain. He is the first historian to write as neither a partisan nor an embittered memoirist. His book is likely to be for some time...
Starts Wednesday: Sir Alec Guiness's least interesting film to date, TUNES OF GLORY casts him as the rough-neck unlovable colonel of a Scottish regiment in H. M. forces soon to be replaced by a tight-laced Sandhurst man. The elements of drama, yes--but precious few compounds result. Daily from...
...Sandhurst, Ionides tempered his rebel traits to the extent of graduating 153rd in a class of 155. He was delighted, since all he wanted of the army was free transportation to Africa to begin his career as a naturalist. The regiment went to India instead. When his application for transfer to Africa finally came through in 1926, Ionides became successively an ivory poacher, a big game hunter, a game warden, and a devout herpetologist. Piecing all these lives of a non-pukka sahib together, Biographer Alan Wykes, a London magazine editor, has drawn a fascinating profile of a man with...
...general who was trained at Britain's Sandhurst, Ayub has a soldier's dislike for politicians. In Ayub's Pakistan, politicking is literally a crime: criticism of his government is punishable by 14 years' hard labor. But under his benign rule, few have actually been sent to the workhouse, and in the nearly three years since he peaceably ejected the squabbling, corrupt politicians in exasperation and took over the government, he has made a spirited assault on Pakistan's multitude of ills...
...Royal Scots Guards, the Duke was a heavy-footed hot-rodder ("100 miles an hour suits me") who had waffled at least four assorted autos, a light-hearted playboy whose pranks had been questioned on the floor of Commons. While the toothy peer muddled and frolicked through Eton and Sandhurst, quiet Kate Worsley diligently attended day school, taught at Lady Eden's fashionable Kensington kindergarten. But then the shy, unspoiled schoolmarm retired to her Yorkshire home, gardened with her mother, stomped the moors of the 4,000-acre family estate with her father, Sir William Worsley, onetime team captain...