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Assigned to a Cossack village, Davidov is soon packing a gun for protection and wrangling with his two assistants, one of whom stays up all night studying English while the other develops a mania for butchering the village cats to protect his pet pigeons...
...plainclothesmen: Boiko, with his dimples and "effeminate, rosy cheeks," and Khizhnak, who has a knife scar running from ear to chin and has been known, during an "interrogation." to gouge out the eye of a suspect. Both are murdered by White officers who prove gentlemanly enough to spare the Cossack driver: "Several shots had been sent after him, but evidently more in order to frighten him than to hit him, for he said they whistled high above his head...
...probably remember the picture in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow by Repine, titled The Cossack's Reply to the Sultan...
Things start popping at the F.O. when a dispatch arrives from Her Majesty's representative in Gaillardia, bearing the stunning news that three members of a visiting Russian Cossack dance team have been observed kicking out of step, and consequently must be spies. But where is Gaillardia? No one has ever heard of the place. The problem is bucked to Carlton-Browne of Miscellaneous Territories, a timeserver whose troutlike face mirrors his intelligence. C-B (played expertly by gap-toothed Terry-Thomas) discovers the file on Gaillardia among the rats in the archives: it is an island which, being...
Former employees of Alfred A. (for Abraham) Knopf, a publisher with the appearance and manner of a retired Cossack sergeant, recall that on the frequent occasions when Knopf was displeased, he would rumble: "If this keeps up, I'm going to sell to Bennett Cerf." At last, without a frown, Knopf has sold. The price, according to Random House President Cerf: in the neighborhood of 135,000 shares of Random House stock, worth roughly $3,000,000. Knopf and his wife Blanche, an aloof, astringent woman who is the firm's president (her husband is chairman), will still...