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...lunch period to watch the salad fall out of my mouth) the guy who didn't know how to dance, went to Catholic school while all my Little League buddies went to make-out parties, the guy who couldn't sit still or get roaring drunk with T-Bone LaCour every Friday night when I was 13 because my parents and I went to see, but not understand, the Florida Symphony, me, the Asst. Editor of the Sand Crab who wrote the lead story on "Homecoming" (the tag was," ... and the easy, floating ride home. Homecoming"), me, the mumbler, trip...
DEATH IN THAT GARDEN (310 pp.)-José André Lacour-Rinehart...
When Belgian-born Author José André Lacour outlined his Death in That Garden, he found himself at a writer's disadvantage. The setting was the upper reaches of Amazonia, but Lacour had never been there. So he left his home near Paris and spent three months in Brazil; including ten days on the Amazon-though quite comfortably on a friend's yacht. When his novel was published, one French critic flatly hailed it as "one of the masterworks of his generation." It is not that, but it is still one of the grimmest stories in some...
This is obviously the kind of fertile fictional earth just right for the tall corn. To Author Lacour's credit, he does not overcultivate the acres. When Chark, the German, tells them of his plan to search for a gold-carrying plane that has crashed, all agree to stick together. Ridiculously ill-equipped, they begin a journey whose terrors bring out the best and worst in them all. Starving, sick, half-crazed, they stumble along after the German, take turns carrying the child and the box of crucifixes that the priest intends for native Indians. The ceaseless procession...
Pain & Paralysis. This beglamoured life ended dramatically on June 8, 1956. With Norwegian Ambassador Rolf Andvord and her good friends Domenica Walter, Jean Lacaze and Dr. Maurice Lacour, Maggie attended a gala opera performance in honor of visiting King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. Her close relationship with Domenica and Jean had business as well as social overtones: through her own Newmont Mining Corp., Maggie owned nearly half the stock in Domenica's and Jean's rich Zellidja mines. There were rumors that, dissatisfied with the long-term plans of the Zellidja management, she was planning...