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...boat and go junketing about the West Coast with Jean Hagen? The film never recovers from this odd digression, and Meeker's eventual cure is accomplished with Hollywood mirrors: in a tropical downpour, he saves his nephew's life, clears up his war neurosis in a brisk man-to-man chat with Whitmore, and, arm-in-arm with Jean, walks happily into the rainswept night...
Nell Gwyn: Royal Mistress, by John H. Wilson. A brisk and scholarly biography of Charles II's famous doxy (TIME...
...same. His opinions are strong, but they can be changed if enough facts are marshaled against him. "To get along with the general," says one lieutenant, "you don't have to be supine. He doesn't like that. But it helps to be flexible." He is brisk but not brusque. Once, at an evening meeting, a lawyer handed Wood a complicated report on a project. Wood leafed through it in a matter of seconds, then mumbled that they'd better get started on a game of bridge. Next day, when Wood was asked why he hadn...
...duke, an Englishman to begin with, long ago acquired his title by the brisk expedient of "buying off ten claimants, three genuine." He is a blithe-spirited cross between Machiavelli and the Medici, and a lover of beauty in the form of small boys; his villa on the hill is staffed by a butler of eleven and a footman of ten. But the duke can remember days when he was better served: "When I came here first, they used to love me for my money. Now, I fear, they love my money...
Nell Gwyn: Royal Mistress, by John H. Wilson. A brisk and scholarly biography of Charles II's famous doxy (TIME...