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...When asked if the Allies' effort was worth the estimated 20 million lives lost, Harry Patch, 111, the last surviving British veteran of World War I, replied, "It wasn't worth one." Patch died just days after fellow British WW I soldier Henry Allingham, 113, passed away...
...easy to see why. Otsuka has planned every detail of the café, from the two months of training would-be butlers undergo to the grandfather clock by the fireplace to the leather volumes of obscure poetry (by that famous Victorian bard, William Allingham) that adorn the shelves. "There's no place like this, so we had to make it from our imagination," says Otsuka. It doesn't hurt that the food is surprisingly good, prepared with the help of Paul Okada, a hospitality consultant who spent 12 years as the food-and-beverage director at the Four Seasons Tokyo...
...negligent during the filming of a Viet Nam War sequence in which a helicopter, disabled by a special-effects explosion, crashed onto Morrow, 53, and Vietnamese Actors Renee Chen, 6, and Myca Dinh Le, 7. The director and two other colleagues, Associate Producer George Folsey and Production Manager Dan Allingham, are charged with an additional count of manslaughter for endangering the lives of Chen and Le. Attorneys for the defendants say they have admitted they violated ; childlabor law by hiring the children without permits and letting them work as late as 2:20 a.m., the time of the fatal stunt...
Death of an Expert Witness by P.D. James (Scribner's; $8.95). Since James, 57, is English and a woman, she is frequently hailed as a worthy successor to Christie, Sayers, Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh. James' knowledge of locale (in this case, East Anglia's murky, misty fen country) and contemporary mores (some pretty kinky), her familiarity with forensic science (which is what Expert's plot is mostly about) and keen psychological insight, all mark her as an original. Her seventh and best mystery novel brings back Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh, who writes offbeat...
...intend to continue their Martin Beck series, the literary toll seems higher than the one in the bus. It is as if an entire family of friends were abruptly wiped out. Few thriller writers have interwoven so many good recurring characters with their plots; only the late Margery Allingham comes to mind...