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...street that day, he met Wilson, told him of the discovery and then disappeared. A few days later, investigation revealed that the stranger was an Arizona uranium miner who had staged his performance only as a practical joke...
Hope for a Civilian. Francis Lacoste is no stranger to Morocco. In 1947 he was the Quai d'Orsay's delegate to Marshal Alphonse Juin's Moroccan Residency. Although he was no policymaker, he became an expert on Moroccan peasant problems and maintained friendly relations with the now-deposed Ben Youssef. A graduate of the University of Paris' School of Political Science, he served diplomatic apprenticeships in Belgrade and Peking, returned to France during World War II, fought in the resistance, won a Croix de Guerre. Since the war he has had tours in Washington...
...STRANGER COME HOME (369 pp.)-William L. Shirer-Little, Brown...
...latest is Stranger Come Home, which comes with the assurance that all its characters are "imaginary." But any moderately attentive reader will begin naming the originals who inspired them almost at once, will feel in the end what is sadly true: that Stranger is a sour mash of stale news stories. The only bit of imagination connected with Author Shirer's book is the startling notion of calling it a novel...
...Stranger is written in the form of a diary. It is being kept by Raymond Whitehead, who returns to the U.S. after many years as a foreign correspondent to become a news broadcaster (a career that parallels Author Shirer's). Hero Whitehead had once been in the foreign service, but the State Department had found his reports "too literary.'' Someone must have been letting him down gently. Whitehead-Shirer uses "tomes"' and "major opus" for books, "espied" for saw, "eminent solon" for Senator. When Whitehead is thinking deeply, as he does one day at a baseball...