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...detected, the two were working in harmony. Directly under Nhu, two officers seemed to be in command: be spectacled, pockmarked Colonel Le Quang Tung, in charge of the Special Forces, and Brigadier General Ton That Dinh, commander of the III Army Corps and military governor of Saigon, a dapper graduate of the U.S. Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, who wears a red beret, carries a swagger stick, and likes to be accompanied on military operations by his own photographer. Of South Viet Nam's 17 generals, Dinh is one of two who actually have troops...
...Understood. From there the plot thickened-and sickened. A dapper little fellow in a blue trench coat showed up at the apartment a few moments later, introduced himself to Vanya as "Ivan Ivanovich, your brother's driver." He added cryptically: "We have been trying to meet you for two days. We wanted to see you alone-to avoid trouble. You understand?" Vanya was pretty sure he understood. When the pair left, he called...
...face, he takes it off. He squeegees out his contact eyeball covers, eases out his teeth, removes his grey wig, strips off his forehead and nose like so much tired bubble gum. And quicker than the audience can gasp "Kirk Douglas!", Kirk Douglas starts redisguising himself as a dapper diplomat. From here on, The List of Adrian Messenger becomes less a suspense movie than a guessing game: Who, among the assorted gypsies, crippled pensioners, organ grinders and ban-thefox-hunt ladies, are really Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra and Robert Mitchum...
...walls, it seems, scarcely quiver when burglars blast open the pantry safe. One victim, the Marquess of Bristol, learned recently that $56,000 worth of silver pinched from his mansion last February is now in Russia. Another underworld spectacular that fascinated Britons was carried out last year by eight dapper dastards in bowler hats, and dark suits and carrying tightly furled umbrellas, who marched into London airport, grabbed a $175,000 airline payroll, and beat an elegant retreat in two matching blue Jaguars...
Neither of the men who glared at each other across the prisoner's dock in a crowded Moscow courtroom looked very much like a spy. Dapper Greville Maynard Wynne, 44, was a salesman who lived quietly in London's fashionable Chelsea section with his wife and young son when he was not on the road selling electrical machinery in Russia and Eastern Europe. Slender Oleg Penkovsky, 44, was a much-decorated Russian war hero who recently had held the delicate job of arranging East-West scientific exchanges for a Soviet state committee. But last week the incongruous pair...