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Decca & Boud. The reader who feels at this stage that he has wandered into an early Evelyn Waugh novel will not be far wrong. Waugh might indeed have written another Decline and Fall based on Jessica's chronicle. There is even a Waughlike Mitford uncle who was the author of one book, a privately printed volume of his letters to the London Times and other publications, notably on the subject of manure; his notion was that the greatness of Elizabethan Eng land was due to the widespread use of sheep droppings in producing an organically based diet and thus...
...Charter Stretcher. Ex-Im's current president is Samuel Clark Waugh, 70, a Lincoln, Neb. banker who took over in 1955. Under Waugh, loans last year hit a record $535.9 million. Waugh has stretched his charter a bit to keep Ex-Im operations flexible. Sample: massive stabilization loans ($100 million to Mexico, $25 million to Chile) are not meant to be spent but to give a psychological lift to a currency threatened by inflation or devaluation. But further than that Waugh will not go, or even look. "I'm a lender, not a giver," he says...
...Fuel for the Flame, Waugh...
...Advocate, West (4) 4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (3) 5. Poor No More, Ruark (6) 6. Exodus, Uris (9) 7. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (5) 8. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (8) 9. The War Lover, Hersey (7) 10. Fuel for the Flame, Waugh (10) NONFICTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. May This House Be Safe from Tigers...
...concerned that he had deep sympathy for their "aspirations for self-government." As loudspeakers carried his words outside, 2,000 Africans bearing antifederation placards began to grow restless. Finally, a black policeman snatched one of the placards, and the trouble began. It quickly became a scene out of Evelyn Waugh: below, the blacks screamed and police flailed; on the hotel veranda above, Europeans calmly went on sipping their gins and whiskies...