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...Gallant Name. In a single year Cadet Foucauld spent 21 days in simple arrest, 45 days in disciplinary arrest; he graduated 87th in a class of 87. He was cashiered from his regiment for taking his mistress Mimi along with him to Algeria. But later, when his old outfit, the 4th Hussars, ran into sticky fighting against the Arabs. Foucauld tossed Mistress Mimi aside, wangled reinstatement, and made a gallant name for himself. He never went back to his foie gras and champagne. Instead, at 29. he returned to the church, joined the Trappists, then decided that the Trappist austerities...
...this planet, Altair 4, and its crew have settled themselves ("Wotta place! Just another one of those new planets--no beer, no women, no pool parlor"), Dr. Morbius, a twenty-year resident, begins his fatal battle of the Super Ego versus Id. Although he professes to be a gallant humanitarian at the outset, by the end of the picture we are convinced that he is a person just like ourselves: an intelligent egomaniac who wants only one thing in life--to have his own little planet...
...steady-eyed to blink what Cyril Connolly has called "the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." Oddly enough, it is the countess' way of dying rather than living that is memorable. Pacing half-crazed on the burning deck of her memories, she becomes a strangely gallant figure calling to mind two lines of Dylan Thomas on how to receive death...
...could doubt that gallant and dashing Major Woodfall's D.S.O. and Military Cross were well and truly earned on the field of battle. All took it for granted that his relatively humble job as managing director of a small London hotel was in reality a cover-up for the vital and undercover Secret Service work at which he often hinted over a confidential whisky and soda at the Ritz bar or the Dorchester...
Dangerous Freedom. Last week, after running down the elusive gallant at a fashionable Irish country house, where he was staying as a weekend guest with another "wife." the weary police turned Major Michael Woodfall over once more for trial at London's Old Bailey. He was, their records plainly showed, neither a major nor a Woodfall but an operator better known to the Yard as Champagne Charlie. In a lifetime of high living, assuming identities that ranged from that of "Sir Patrick Murphy, ex-governor of the Bahamas" to that of "Roland Jones, heir to a fortune," 35-year...