The Ivory Desert
An Irish playwright who scored his initial success with the Abbey Theatre and whose unforgettable play, The Moon in the Yellow River, was a hit in London and Dublin, DENIS JOH NSTON served during the war as a BBC correspondent in the field. He reached the front at the time Rommel had the British Army on the run; he worked in the desert, then in Italy, finally with the Americans in Germany, ami out of his experiences has come a unujue, powerfully written book, Nine Rivers from Jordan. One cannot classify it, for it is autolnography, adventure, parody, mysticism, and farce. It will be published this month under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint; and from it we have drawn the arresting episode which follows.