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Thus Joseph Conrad, in The Secret Agent (1907), gave a prophetic portrait of that now familiar pest of the West-the Communist espionage agent...
When the non-Russian recruit enters the world of Conrad's professor, he is bound about with rules which at first seem incredibly naive. The details of conspiratsia involve the dimmest kind of drudgery. No thriller writer would condescend to invent a scene as clumsily conceived as the actual meeting of two spies in a Geneva street. One of them thus summarized his instructions from Moscow: "I was to be wearing a white scarf and to be holding in my right hand a leather belt. As the clock struck noon, I would be approached by a woman . . . holding...
...Married. Conrad Nagel, 58, oldtime cinemactor (Stage Struck) turned TV star; and Micheal Coulson Smith, 32; he for the third time, she for the second; in Rumson...
...America his vast popularity had waned, and critics were finding his later work "disappointing." He had been praised as one of the "world's great literary figures." But such evaluations are for posterity, which would judge Mann against his world contemporaries: Kipling, Conrad, Gorky, Gide, Joyce, Henry James, Shaw, Galsworthy, d'Annunzio. Mann himself was sensitively aware that one enters this hall of fame treading lightly. "There has been far too much talk about me," he wrote in 1951, adding: "It is not without a measure of embarrassment and dis may . . . that I note . . . that some people judge...
Lions & Ladies. Conrad Hilton, who has flown planeloads of celebrities as far as Istanbul for previous hotel-warmings, was not exaggerating. After two years of construction, Hotelman Hilton was sparing no pains and spending $150,000 to throw the splashiest party of his career...