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...tropic-marine" room permeated with salt spray...
Author Flynn gestated Showdown (Sheridan House; $2.50) in nightly, four-hour stretches over a period of nine months. The novel, laid in the South Seas, features lusts, busts, tropic moons and cheesecake. "I don't know why I did it," confessed Author Flynn (who is considering making only one movie a year so that he can devote himself to prose). "I won't make any money. Critically, I am bound to be slaughtered. If the reviewers do like it, they'll probably say it was written by somebody else...
Then, about 85 years ago, a few Americans set out to right the wrongs which a few Americans had done. Missionaries of a Boston society taught and toiled with the resentful, disease-ridden, impoverished Micronesians. Kusaie became a tropic paradise. It had no poverty or crime, almost no disease. It was a communal democracy-its village chiefs and the island king were elected by the people. Then in 1941 the Japanese sent the missionaries away...
...helper (in his father's shop), a mail sorter, a Western Union messenger, a speakeasy operator. In Paris, where he settled in 1930 "to study vice," he worked at panhandling and slept on park benches. He also wrote his best work, a swatch of unabashed autobiographical writings (Tropic of Cancer; Tropic of Capricorn and others), and several volumes of second-rate philosophy with first-rate titles (What Are You Going to Do About Alf? ; Money and How It Gets that Way; Max and the White Phagocytes...
...dictator's amorous capacity is notable, even in the tropic Caribbean. One of Trujillo's friends is bediamonded, aging, Isabel Mayer. Now in her sixties, Dona Isabel is still famed for her parties and cuisine ("Have some more sea food! It's good for men"). Trujillo was at one of her parties when the infamous massacre of the Haitians occurred in 1937. Rumor has it that Dona Isabel had complained that Haitian peasants, sneaking across the border, were stealing her cattle. The Trujillo soldiery was ordered out. They smashed babies' heads against rocks, ripped pregnant women...