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...SUNDOWN (82 pp.)-M. A. DeWolfe Howe-Little, Brown...
...last of Boston's gentleman-writers-he was the reputed model for Horatio Willing, the biographer-friend of The Late George Apley-Mark Howe is a calm and gentle writer of calm and gentle books. This week Howe celebrates his gist birthday with the publication of Sundown, a thin volume of verse, his 36th published work. While Howe's poetry is often as amateurish as his performance on the recorder, his poems have the nostalgic appeal of a Victorian valentine. "The trouble is," says Howe, "they're too comprehensible...
...other side of the barricade, a mob formed after sundown in the dusty street. A loudspeaker blared again and again: 'Let us expel the Communist Supervisory Commission and regain the price of our lost blood...
...King George V went there to sail in 1935. This time, too, there was racing royalty on hand. The sports-loving Duke of Edinburgh left his queen at home, and by helicopter hastened out to the royal yacht Britannia, happy to escape temporarily from Buckingham pomp and ceremony. At sundown on each racing day bluebloods and commoners alike thronged Cowes's pubs or gathered on boats to roar out a night of song and story over Scotch and pink...
...finally forced Tokyo to postpone the plan. Then an enterprising newspaper printed a story about Aoki's work, and nearby farmers marched on the colony, pulled the huts down with ropes (they were afraid to touch the boards) and burned them. Aoki's small band got until sundown to get off Okinawa. They fled by boat to an uninhabited island off the coast to start all over again...