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...name your new book on the Burgess Shale fossil bed in Canada after Frank Capra's movie It's a Wonderful Life...
...information on Hilary's whereabouts. The child was traced to Christchurch after the BBC television show Kilroy aired a documentary about the case. Among those who watched the program was a teacher at Beechford College, a girls' prep school in Plymouth, England, who informed the show's producer, Di Burgess, that Hilary had been a student there. The school's headmistress, Pat Holdness, told the London Times that Hilary's grandparents enrolled her in 1987 under the name Ellen Morgan. According to Holdness, she was "a well-balanced child and very, very happy. The grandparents doted on her." After...
...Foretich's British attorneys obtained a court order instructing Burgess to reveal what she knew about Hilary's whereabouts. The battle then moved to the New Zealand family court when lawyers filed suit for Foretich, who wants to regain custody of his daughter. A judge has appointed a lawyer for Hilary and ordered that the child be examined by an expert in child sexual abuse. The judge also ordered Foretich, who is believed to be headed for New Zealand, to stay away from his daughter and her grandparents. They have been granted interim custody and ordered not to leave...
...acclamation, the late Kim Philby holds the title Spy of the Century, and the tale of his flight to the Soviet Union in 1963 is still being retold in books and movies. Three of his fellow spies in England -- Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt -- were also unmasked. But there has long been suspicion that there was a fifth man and much speculation about his identity. Last week the KGB offered confirmation of sorts. After a Moscow screening of a propaganda film on the Soviet intelligence service, British correspondent Rupert Cornwell buttonholed Yuri Modin, who had been...
...extensive postwar literature of espionage and double agentry, fact and fiction tend to blur. Was Magnus Pym the name of John le Carre's perfect spy? Or was it Guy Burgess? Pym and Burgess, Donald Maclean and Toby Esterhase -- characters from the shadow world of MI6 and the KGB -- seem equally real, equally fanciful...