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...Standard bearer of freedom in the old Italian colony (pop. 1,500,000) is Abdullahi Issa, 38. His counterpart in the old British colony (pop. 640,000) is a British-educated rich man's son, Mohammed Ibrahim Egal, 32. When Issa brought up independence last year, Italy told him he could have it whenever he liked. Egal promptly asked for permission to join his colony to the new nation. Britain readily agreed. The two men quickly worked out a merger agreement, and last week the two legislatures simply combined. As the Somali Republic's Provisional President, Issa...
...refuses to believe that her soldier husband, missing in World War II, will not one day return. It is her daughter, one of Soldner's students, whose nightmarish experiences give the book an aura of suspense that is more effective than its theme of corruption-by-money. The bearer of horror is a mentally unbalanced youth determined to have the young girl. His pursuit gives the novel a sense of imminent disaster and a switch ending more appropriate to a mystery than a thesis novel...
...research, bewails his faulty memory, confesses that, although he has been writing it for 30 years, he can neither define literary criticism nor guess its aims. Yet Tate confidently jabs his critical stiletto into a wide range of men and institutions, from Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson ("the light-bearer who could see nothing but light, and was fearfully blind") to criticism itself (it "is in at least one respect like a mule: it cannot reproduce itself, though, like a mule, it is capable of trying...
John George Charles Henry Alton Alexander Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 45, Premier Earl of England and Bearer of the White Wand at the coronations of George VI and Elizabeth II, charged that in 1955, while he was recovering in an iron lung from an attack of polio, his dark-haired wife had had an affair with their children's tutor, a young man (23), fresh down from Cambridge, named Gerald Anthony ("Tonykins") Lowther. For 17 days the court listened to excerpts from letters describing "nights of passion and ecstasy," heard two butlers, a secretary, a nanny and a governess tell...
Along a narrow trail in the jungle of darkest New Guinea, pith helmet set at a jaunty angle, strides the lithe young figure of Errol Flynn. Suddenly the dark wall of foliage opens, and a hail of spears comes streaming through. Ambush! The native bearer next to Flynn falls dead with a spear through his belly, and Flynn is struck in the foot by a poisoned arrow. Not a whit dismayed, the hero leaps behind a tree, whips out his revolver and starts firing. With the first shot he brings down one of the nasty savages. The rest of them...