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Like Hirohito of Japan, Emperor Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela XXVI is a scion of the sun. Unlike Hirohito, the legitimate heir to the golden throne of the Incas has offered to remain neutral in World War II. But one day last spring the Emperor's neutrality became strained. In fact, Huaraca XXVI got hopping mad. For continental defense purposes Ecuador had offered to lend the U.S. use of a plot of "sacred land" donated to the Emperor by the Santa Elena City Council-the very spot where the "Only Inca" had intended to build a summer palace...
Dashing Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew ("Skinny") Wainwright, fighting scion of an illustrious military family, horseman, balladeer, fighter-to-the-end, was finally forced to the greatest tragedy in a soldier's life. He surrendered, and walked off through the dead and dying to discuss with fat, able General Yamashita the terms of his capitulation...
...newly created Lord Wedgwood, potteries scion and for 35 years a stanchly liberal M.P., went off on another tack. "This overemphasized question of slavery! One can go into a sheik's tent in the [British-controlled] Jordan valley and have one's coffee served by a black slave. Don't let us be too virtuous about these things." What worried Lord Wedgwood was the fact Britain had not seized Italian property in Ethiopia outright...
Hero of Along These Streets is Felix Bartain Macalister, scion of a solid old Philadelphia family. Shy, thoughtful, idealistic, Felix is afraid of women and in some unexplained way his physical economy is adjusted to do without love: he seems to be oppressed by a fear that he, like a salmon, will die after mating. But as the story progresses he comes to know women better and to fear them less. On page 434 he almost has an affair, and on page 540 he actually does. In the end he marries, after much soul searching...
James Laughlin IV is a sort of Lorenzo de' Medici. Scion of a steel mill family, he has centered his interest since graduating from Harvard in 1937 in sponsoring young, unknown poets and writers and giving them a chance to see their works in print. For some four years his annual anthology, "New Directions in Prose and Poetry," has contained some of the more interesting, if startling, contributions to modern literature. No ordinary publisher would accept them, for chain poems and their ilk are not designed as money makers. Laughlin can afford, if necessary, to take a loss...