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Lucky Jim's 35-year-old creator is foremost among a group of postwar writers, e.g., John Wain, John Osborne, Thomas Hinde, Peter Towry, John Braine, who have given British writing in the '50s a specific trend and a unique temper...
Within the triangle of Amis, Osborne and Braine, the rest of the Lucky Jim school is encamped. John Wain (Hurry On Down ) is an Amis in whom the quinine water has changed to straight quinine. Thomas Hinde (Happy As Larry) explores the Welfare State Bohemia with a hero who feels that cadging a livelihood is "more honest," and Peter Towry (It's Warm Inside) writes the comedy of carping domesticity. The upstart philistinism that molds and mars the entire group is succinctly stated by John Braine's hero when he says that everything is "simply a question...
...further time digging through Army files, private letters and diaries, and personally interviewing survivors. His book builds to a melancholy climax, from the bombing of Clark Field through the Japanese landings, the fight on Bataan, and the departure of MacArthur, to the final battle of Corregidor and Wain-wright's surrender. While The Fall of the Philippines holds no major surprises, it puts the tragedy in clear perspective...
Cavaliers & Cromwells. Highway robbery in England began on an amateur footing. One Thomas Dun, a precocious boy who had developed a nervous habit of murdering people, stabbed a farmer one day in the reign of Henry I (1100-1135), confiscated his wain of corn and sold it at Bedford Market. Thereby Dun gave rise to an unpleasant tradition of brutality in a business that otherwise often had its lighthearted moments...
...famous names have been grabbing an armful of records and sponsors, and going to work at fortune's wheel. A few: ex-Bandleader Tommy Dorsey (450 stations) is guaranteed $300,000; ex-Sportcaster Ted Husing (Manhattan's WHN) can aim for $250,000; Andre Baruch and Bea Wain (Manhattan's WMCA...