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...than that of the author of Vile Bodies"-Winston Churchill himself. On the other hand, he argued, Waugh's "Ceremony of the Opening of the Wounds" could only hurt Wodehouse. Snapped Connor: "Now Mr. Waugh, in the role of an eager exhumer, disinters the corpse and with busy spade and blazing arclights, goes smartly to work in the graveyard of the past...
Down with RIAS. It had all been said before, but in East Berlin the little spade beard of East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht fairly bobbed with joy at Khrushchev's words. Glittering, prosperous, capitalist-run West Berlin stands in humiliating contrast to Ulbricht's own drab, run-down capital just across the sector border; moreover, West Berlin's refugee centers provide the escape route for most of the 200,000 skilled workers, engineers, farmers and white-collar professionals who flee Ulbricht's miserable country for the West each year, sapping East Germany's very...
BRATTLE: The Bogey festival continues apace. The Maltese Falcon, the current offering, is one of the very best of all. Dashiell Hammett's story has become the vehicle for Bogart's now immortal Sam Spade and Sidney Green-street's now equally immortal Fat Man. Ward Bond and Alicia Cook (and, of course, Peter Lorre). Evenings...
...stories of his senility, Kenyatta looked at least ten years younger than his admitted 71 years. He wore a fly whisk chained to his wrist with a band of silver, sported a gay red tie and a brand-new leather jacket. As he spoke, the old, grey-flecked spade beard bobbed emphatically: "I shall always be an African nationalist to the end . . . but I have never been a violent man ... I condemned and denounced (Mau Mau) oathing at many public meetings. I strongly disapprove...
...example, there is the "nation" of little, spade-bearded Albert Kalonji. A vain and cocky tribalist, Kalonji is an ex-railroad clerk who shortly after independence announced himself "king" of a rich diamond-mining area of South Kasai. which he called "Mining State." He is so superstitious that he cannot relax anywhere he goes until the local authorities produce an albino woman to kiss his hand, habitually carries a magic wand that is supposedly capable of killing any man with a wave...