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With this novel of romance and intrigue, the second son of the late Lord Tweedsmuir, more widely known as John (The 39 Steps') Buchan, takes his own first fictional step. Buchan fils proves that like Buchan pere he can turn a marsh-mallow-weight tale until it is neatly toasted. The setting is India; the set is buna sahib; the time is mainly the '30s; the season is boredom. But at least two men and one woman think there is more to India than what can be seen through the bottom of a gin-sling glass...
...these tantalizing words the late Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan), novelist and onetime Governor General of Canada, pictured the "Headless Valley" on the remote South Nahanni River. Behind Buchan's lines lay 40 years of mystery, yet little has been done to explore the fantastic legends that came from the 200-mile gorge in the limestone mountains, 300 miles east of Whitehorse, Yukon. Last week Nahanni was back in the news again. A group of amateur explorers was preparing to go over it from one end to the other...
Died. Valentine Williams, 63, British journalist and mystery novelist; after long illness; in Manhattan. On the suggestion of Novelist John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir), Williams turned to writing "shockers" while convalescing from wounds during World War I. Result: The Man with the Clubfoot, which was translated into 13 languages...
...Some other Union officers: Lords Asquith, Curzon, Birkenhead, Tweedsmuir...
When Novelist John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir (for his Scottish birthplace) of Elsfield (for his home in Oxford), died last February in his 66th year, his fifth as Governor General of Canada, he had already finished the autobiography his career made inevitable. This provision was of a piece with the career-workmanlike, ordered, conscientious, religiously dutiful -which the last of John Buchan's 50-odd books records...