SHEILA BURNFORD is a Canadian doctor’s wife whose tale of three animals, entitled THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY,has become a classic of its kind. This is the second of two essays taken from her new book, THE FIELDS OF NOON,which will be published this month by AtlanticLittle, Brown.
Born in Johannesburg, which he left in 1958, BLOKE MODISANEwas a reporter and feature writer, as well as theater and music critic, for DRUM Publications, a white-owned company sympathetic to Africans. As an actor he had a part, in the play NO GOOD FRIDAYand the secretly made film COME BACK AFRICA.In England he has appeared in a number of stage and television productions, and in the United States he has lectured on African music and literature. The article which follows has been drawn from his bitter, moving autobiography, which will be published shortly by Dutton.
British norelist and playwright, who has written nearly seventy books and whose first big book, THE GOOD COMPANIONS,won him a large following in America, J. B. PRIESTLEY’Sreminiscences, MARGIN RELEASED,have just been published by Harper & Row. From his new book we have selected this hearty account of his enlistment and training in the First World War, when he served with men all from the West Riding.
KINGSLEY MARTIN, who for thirty years was editor of the New Statesman and Nation, here discusses the difficult task of educating the royal heir and the cost of the crown to the British people. This is the second of two excerpts from Mr. Martin’s book, The Magic of the British Monarchy, which will be published in the fall under the Atlantic–Little‚ Brown imprint.
AGNES DE MILLEentered the world of ballet the hard way. Her parents were opposed to her dancing, so she came to her training later than most people. In London she studied under Marie Rambert, and after fifteen years of frustration she danced into fame at the first performance of her own ballet RODEO.Following that success, she did the ballets for OKLAHOMA!and was soon recognized as a most exciting and original American choreographer. This essay is drawn from her new book, TO A YOUNG DANCER,which will he published by Atlantic-Little, Brown next month.
In 1958 FREDERICK S. FRANCKset up a dental clinic in the hospital of Dr. Schweitzer in Lambaréné. Equatorial Africa. He went as an artist and dentist, and having found that there were hardly any dentists on the continent, he returned in 1959 and 1960 to give short courses on dental emergencies in Ghana, the Congo, the Gabon Republic, Ethiopia, and the Sudan, as well as at Lambaréné. This article and the drawing for the headpiece are from his AFRICAN SKETCHBOOK, to be published try Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
In 1917 DEAN C. SMITH, at the aqe of sixteen, lied his way into the United States Army. At Kelly Field he was trained as a combat pilot, and as an instructor he trained others in the idiosyncrasies of the fragile planes of that day, among them the Jenny and the Sopwith Camel. At the war’s end, flying was in his blood, and after demobilization he was taken on as a pilot to fly the air mail. This narrative is drawn from Mr. Smith’s autobiography, BY THE SEAT OF MY PANTS, to be published this month by Atlantic, Little-Brown.
Poet, teacher, editor, and literary critic, JOHN MALCOLM BRLNNIN was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and educated at the University of Michigan and at Harvard. His most recent book, DYLAN THOMAS IN AMERICA, was published under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint in 1955. This is the first of two excerpts from his new book, THE THIRD ROSE, a full-scale biography of Gertrude Stein, her life, her writings, her associates, and the cultural movements of which she was a part.