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...look; when he comes back, get up in fun And have a wrestle with him, just a rag; Then I'll jump up and slice him through the bag While he is struggling, thinking it a game; You draw your dagger too and do the same...
Mark Clark is a proud and ambitious man; almost all good generals are. His enemies and critics say also that he is impulsive and overfond of publicity. In part these opinions are a recollection of the brash young general, enamored with cloak & dagger stuff, that Clark was ten years ago but is no longer; in part these opinions reflect the nervousness of Europeans, especially the British, when the U.S. puts any forceful man in the Far East. It so happens that the U.S. needs an aggressive, clearheaded and self-confident man in Tokyo-and Mark Clark is just that...
...with his brother Martin and others, he was dealing in Swedish military secrets and conspiring directly with agents working out of the Soviet embassy in Stockholm. Through switches in Soviet contact men and changes in his own jobs Enbom kept the secrets flowing to Moscow. There were elaborate cloak & dagger arrangements -code messages that looked like simple shopping lists, a rusty tin can hidden in an isolated spot as a "letterbox," hairpins hung on a wire fence in Stockholm in various shapes to convey various messages. To improve communications, one Russian agent equipped Enbom with a radio transmitter, which unfortunately...
With the next episode, called A Woman of Sin, Hecht moves more successfully from the area of theatrical cloak & dagger to cinematic tongue in cheek. A Woman of Sin is the title of a trashy novel which is turned into an Academy Award-contending movie without the studio's discovering until too late that the author of this "great story of animal love" is a precocious, pixyish nine-year-old girl. As the beribboned, towheaded authoress, Jenny Hecht takes smoothly to her father's direction. Also participating in this fancifully frothy lampoon of Hollywood: Alan Reed...
...Mecca. Said Talal: "He served the British, and he died alone." Talal then gave the minister a gold-lettered Koran which had belonged to his father, Abdullah: "He served the British well, and he was murdered in a mosque," he said. Then Talal handed the minister his own jeweled dagger, and said: "I serve the British. I wonder what my end will...