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...BREAKING WAVE, by Nevil Shute (282 pp.; Morrow; $3.50). Why did Jessie Proctor take a bottlefull of sleeping pills? The suicide of his parents' maid is a mystery that challenges Alan Duncan, just returned from Europe to manage the family's huge sheep ranch near Melbourne, Australia. Thanks to the dead girl's diary, Duncan's sleuthing takes him less than 24 hours, but an almost continuous flashback takes him over years of personal history, etched in the common memories of a whole generation of Britons who fought in World War II. Alan discovers that Jessie...
...used to run?...I had only one objection to those pieces...I was unable to find out who did a particularly wonderful piece of writing...Outstanding, inspired writing is fine literature and the author should not be forced to die an anonymous death... just to satisfy some old-maid policy on a magazine. While I'm on this subject, I should also like to add that...whoever writes your Cinema and Books sections often comes up with a masterpiece ...Why don't you let these present-day Wolfes and Menckens get a byline?...Those geniuses should both...
...Second Maid. The world of Sir Henry was made by Novelist Robert (Portrait of Jennie) Nathan. It is located at the intersection where whimsy and satire collide. It is a slap-happy world, in a well-bred way, where the fish are philosophical. "There are creatures beyond us; for I have seen their shadows," says a trout to a nonbelieving chum, who thinks all there is beyond is an absence of water. "Do they lay eggs?" asks the chum. "They are altogether spiritual." says the trout. As for the dogs, they are even better than the fish. They are romantic...
...mill knight who wears old-fashioned armor, travels with a hot-water bottle and suffers from nosebleed after battle. Head up, though run down after his encounter with the dragon, he is lucky enough to beat the daylights out of another knight and win a second fair maid. This doubles his troubles. With two women to choose between, Sir Henry becomes the eternal, quintessential male - totally incapable of making up his mind as he holds on to both of them...
Fools Thrown Upon Russians like to play cards, especially Blackjack, Preference, Fools Thrown Upon, and a variant of Old Maid called The Witch. Last week the publication Young Communist declared flatly that "card playing is incompatible with the Soviet way of life." Reasons...