10 NOVEMBER 1961, page 21

Yankee's Burden

In the Days of McKinley. By Margaret Leech. (Hamish Hamilton, 42s.) ON the bloody field of Antietam, in 1862, a nineteen-year-old commissary sergeant drove a team of mules into......

Grass-root Kingmaking

WHILE I was pondering on how to deal with Mr. Michener's new book, I passed a London cinema in which South Pacific, the Techni- color version of the famous 'musical,' is now in......