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By GREGORY JENSEN
jONDON — Dame Agatha
ristie leaves one monumental
stery unsolved in her autobiog-
ahy published Nov. 10 — the
oalsarere t : seof the Vanishing Authoress, a
ie drama where she played the
iding part.
“Agatha Christie: An Autobiog-
ihy,” published 22 months after
very
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^ ime Agatha’s death at 85, was
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jposed to answer all the puzzles
out this gentle English matron
io was the most popular mystery
iter ever known,
loss, stiijs M ' n ^ its 542 small-type pages
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place even
•lain some', fl 16 background is there. Dame
len he is, pthafrankly discusses her harrow-
se after lie ! approach to mental breakdown.
" (when it comes to those 11 De-
mber days in 1926 when she van-
led — the most publicized event
her long life — she remains si-
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Her marriage to Archibald Chris-
'jects to ilj was breaking down. Mrs. Chris-
was overworked, overweight and
lieyfercome with “a terrible sense of
leliness.” She drove her car into a
™ gy night and disappeared.
Her car was found teetering on
lip of a 120-foot-deep quarry,
oodhounds tracked her in vain.
was found, eventually, in a
itelmore than 100 miles away, the
dim of amnesia, not even knowing
rname.
“When she came back she didn’t
cognize my mother, her own
mghter, who was 7 then,” Christ
y’s grandson Mathew Prichard said
a recent interview.
“It was not an episode which was
d. Thesm er discussed in the family,”
ichard said. “My grandmother
iver mentioned it. We did not
liestion her. ”
mtisinga Even without this drama Agatha
ncentrateu ™ties \i£e was jammed with in-
ad nn tin ™ s ' Her vivid account or it does
nckim* depend for its fascination on
Conccnln 3se ^ books which were “outsold
interferes vby the Bible and Shakespeare,”
)f the h™ r Publisher says.
For its first half this autobiog-
your voicel )hy memorializes another age —
ling, slie e dying Victorian era whose
start oulii ndards Dame Agatha never lost.
I conversr She creates witb loving nostalgia
e-elevalei e era of housefuls of servants,
alk in thei len girls like Agatha had tutors
— more nd governesses rather than going
everyone o school, when a teenage girl
ixiety,ties lought only of chaperones and
:e is necesAthes and innocent flirtations.
JThe second half completes a self-
prait closely resembling her pub-
image — that of a shy, almost
(elusive person, family-centered,
thakeen intellect, an immovable
lax enough
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As a genuine professional, Agatha
Christie cannot help but make her
long life enjoyably readable. As an
honest professional she cannot avoid
portraying a marvelous, vibrant,
somewhat formidable woman.
“I have been singularly fortu
nate,” Dame Agatha writes. “So
many things to remember. So many
things — some silly, some funny,
some beautiful.”
At 75 she could say: “I am ready
now to accept death. I am satisfied.
I have done what I wanted to do.”
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Campus Names
Donald R. Deere Jr.
Two Rhodes nominees
from A&M compete
Donald R. Deere Jr. of Ar
lington and Robert A. Lacy of
Lake Charles, La., are Texas
A&M University’s nominees for
a Rhodes Scholarship to attend
Oxford University next year.
The two seniors, both National
Merit Scholars with perfect 4.0
grade point ratios, are among 50
applicants from Texas schools
who will interview in Houston
for the prestigious award. If suc
cessful, they will advance to New
Orleans in mid-December for
regional screening along with
nominees from Oklahoma, Ar
kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi
and Alabama.
Deere is an economics major
and Lacy is a physics major. Both
have earned membership in
honor societies Phi Eta Sigma
and Phi Kappa Phi. Lacy was
selected outstanding junior in
the College of Science in 1977.
In 1976, Deere was chosen out
standing sophomore in the Col
lege of Liberal Arts. Both were
named University Under
graduate Fellows this year.
Robert A. Lacy
THE BATTALION Page 5
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1977
AFROTC graduate
named ‘distinguished’
James S. Logan, May 1977
Texas A&M University and Air
Force ROTC graduate, has been
designated a distinguished
graduate by the Air Force central
selection board at Maxwell Air
Force Base, Ala.
Second Lt. Logan was one of
16 nationwide chosen for the
honor.
The board assessed university
performance, extracurricular ac
tivities, class standing and AF
ROTC and field training accom
plishments.
Formerly of Fairfax, Va.,
Logan majored in geography at
Texas A&M .
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I no one bn H an( ] a passion for old-fashioned
he hypnosi rt ues .
f out, ski Scattered thr ough her life story
ot worryi »nuggets of surprise which show
, Chap? e human person behind Agatha
>sis is don? iristie’s famous name,
nvironmei Her only two ambitions in life
ers, it is* ;re to own a car and to have
, he said nner with Queen Elizabeth in
icier for (t ickingham Palace. She achieved
s a natural th, 40 years apart,
velcler said Writing remained a casual hobby
irre, nor* til one murder story — “The
ystery of the Blue Train” — had to
produced to meet publishing ob-
itions despite her bleak and un-
tive mood.
“That was the moment when I
anged from an amateur to a pro-
ssional,” she recalled. “I have al-
ryshated that book.”
Her autobiography solves the
ystery of how she invented those
dedly ingenious plots — not in a
—’ ish of inspiration but through care-
IN 1 planning, long gestation periods
id solid research.
She talks about how most of her
Joks were born, but confesses
•me “left so little impression on my
ind that 1 cannot even remember
riting them.”
Another surprise is the extent of
•r travels — and how well she
rites about places.
One long chapter covers her trip
ound the world in the 1920s. With
•r second husband, archeologist
ir Max Mallowan, she went on
Jcades of digs in the Middle East,
er book sings with exotic names —
limrud and Shiraz, Ur and Tas-
ania and Isfahan — rather than
mous people.
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
'bistie Mallowan, Dame of the
ritish Empire, began writing this
itobiography in 1950, when she
as 60, and stopped work on it
lien she was 75. The book has the
itch work quality of an off-and-on
ork.
It zigzags in time and breaks off
r little sermons. Some subjects
'ere unmarried girls flirting and
ipital punishment, both of which
tame Agatha approved.
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