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...Strange Life of Charles Waterton, by Richard Aldington. A fascinating study of a 19th Century English eccentric whose passion for exploration and taxidermy was equaled by his antipathy to Protestants and the House of Hanover (TIME...
...stubborn flying general's mission: rebuilding a bomber group whose shattered morale under heavy losses threatens to 1) discredit precision daylight bombing, and 2) undermine the whole aerial offensive against German-held Europe. Brigadier General Frank Savage-(Gregory Peck) goes at the job with the cold passion of a martinet and the inner torment of a man of good will. He breaks subordinates, cancels privileges, harangues his crews ("Consider yourselves dead"), disgraces misfits, puts the outfit through elementary training paces and woos such resentment that every pilot accepts his blanket invitation to apply for transfer...
...hung out to dry. This sudden delinquency has caused a flurry of speculation in the Times letters column and other British forums. Some blamed the tits' behavior on the lack of fats in austere Britain; others, like famed Dr. Marie (Married Love) Stopes, on the birds' "unsatisfied passion for coconuts...
Familiar Tunes. Publisher Laughlin's name writers are more readable, though all of them pluck away predictably at familiar tunes. Playwright Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire) explores more horror south of the Mason-Dixon line in the story of a frigid, middle-aged writer's passion for a horsy Mexican girl, also contributes some frank blank verse titled Counsel about Paris whorehouses. Expatriate Novelist Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer) writes his way around his subject (Rimbaud) and plunges defiantly into his own thrice-told life and hard times. Most engaging poet: William Carlos Williams, who keeps...
...Passion for Anonymity. In Pittsburgh, the admirer who sent Ruth Tremaine about $100 worth of red roses had the bills sent to her boy friend...