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...overwhelming Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean might raise an implicit threat to the Strait of Malacca, through which Japan gets its oil from the Middle East, as well as to Indonesia and even Australia. The U.S. until now has had only a brace of destroyers and the Valcour, an ex-seaplane tender stationed at the former British base in Bahrain. From now on, though, task forces from the Seventh Fleet will be periodically patrolling the strategic sea lanes and showing neutral nations something other than the Russian flag...
...extreme in everything, with an unbridled imagination about sex that has never been equaled-there you have me; and once more, either kill me or take me as I am, for I shall not change." Cut off from sex, De Sade wrote about it-incessantly. His novel Aline et Valcour was mild enough; it contained only one poisoning and just a few flagellations...
Stylist. In Los Angeles, Hans Spangenberg, lover of labials, despiser of sibilants, asked court permission to change his name to Valcour Berne de Belair...
MURDER MASKS MIAMI-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Lieutenant Valcour gets a killer who uses a murderous hypo on two unpopular women-an ultra-respectable old lady and a blackmailing young golddigger. Swift, breezy, tongue-in-cheek tale...
Wrote Detective Storyteller King (The Lesser Antilles Case, Valcour Meets Murder) before the premiere: "Murder in the family circle never pays, whereas murder in a manuscript does. That is to say, every now & then." There being no other comparable melodrama currently playing on Broadway, this may be one of those profitable times for Mr. King...