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...these houses belongs to Valerian Street, a retired millionaire candy manufacturer who does very little but cat voraciously, drink wine, and watch his plants while he listens to classical music. He has an eerie, distant relationship with his younger, beautiful wife Margaret, the "Principal Beauty of Maine" who made something "kneel down in his heart" when he first looked at her and who finds island life a tragedy of boredom. The Streets have been served for years by an elderly Black couple. Sydney and Ondine, who keep the house in working order and help to maintain the social order. They...
...Green and Jadine Childs meet in unusual circumstances. After stowing away on a yacht that docks at a small island in the Caribbean, Son hides in the house of Valerian Street, a retired candy manufacturer from Philadelphia. Street's wife Margaret, a faded Maine beauty queen, stumbles on the intruder in her closet. Her screams alarm the household. Sydney, the family butler, procures the family pistol and investigates. He reappears with his quarry: a ragged black apparition in Rastafarian dreadlocks. Valerian offers the man a drink and invites him to eat the collapsed remains of a souffle. Jadine, Sydney...
...takes 200 pages to find out, though not before Morrison forcefully diverts attention from her love story to some serious conflicts in the Street house. Valerian and Margaret do not share a bedroom. He spends most of his time in a greenhouse tending feeble plants that might flourish if left outside in the trade breezes. Ghostly pale, Margaret lies in the shade and believes that her son Michael will finally visit her. In the kitchen, Ondine, Sydney's wife, cooks Main Line specialties and fumes about the unreasonable demands of her boss's wife. Ondine also harbors...
Dedicated Nazi-hunters in the U.S. consider Trifa's court action a tacit admission of guilt not only on the technical charge but on all the rest, since all their accusations would have been aired during a long trial. But Valerian issued a prepared statement that his decision "is in no way to be considered an admission of the Government allegations." His lawyer, George E. Woods, a former U.S. Attorney in Detroit, denies that the 66-year-old archbishop caved in before a strong prosecution case. Valerian, he says, was ailing and simply tired of the legal fight that...
Archbishop Valerian remains head of his denomination, living in a 25-room house on its headquarters estate in Grass Lake, Mich. Once the Justice Department completes the steps to strip him of citizenship, it will have to begin the lengthy process of deporting...