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Thus, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway described André Marty, French Communist leader who during the Spanish Civil War was inspector general (i.e., a sort of roving henchman) in the International Brigade. Behind Marty was another French Communist, Charles Tillon, recruiting volunteers. In World War II, Tillon organized the Communist underground in France. Among French Communists, Marty and Tillon were known as des durs (tough guys). Last week the tough guys, who in their day had purged hundreds of comrades, were themselves the victims of a party purge...
...Convention. Houston Lawyer Malcolm McCorquodale reported on Brazos County in southeast Texas. Said he: "The county chairman was a Zweifel henchman. He looked over these delegates and he saw he was going to get outvoted, so he just refused to call the meeting to order . . . He ran the delegates off the premises, held a county convention all by himself, elected himself delegate to Mineral Wells; he was seated at Mineral Wells, and cast the entire five votes for the county himself...
...salaries were raised 50%. Three portly colonels, retired when Batista left the presidency in 1944, were observed at a tailor shop being fitted for new uniforms. A lieutenant (j.g.), promoted to captain, became chief of naval operations. To run the lottery, a traditional gravy bowl, Batista named the same henchman who handled the ladle eight years ago. And he put the customs service, source of most government revenue, under army control...
...neat and solid citizen, a member of the Louisiana Court of Appeals who served during World War II as a colonel with the Ninth Army in Europe. In 1948, he ran for governor and then for Senator: during the campaigning, the judge was attacked by a Long henchman, Lieut. Governor Bill Dodd, who derided his Army record, thus: "They tested his feet and said they were no good for running. They tested his blood and said it was 65% champagne and 35% talcum powder. They tested his ears, and the doctor said: 'Judge, your ears are perfect...
...itself. It also pegs the film's picaresque hero without a wasted motion. Stewart Granger is the Raffles of art-clever, nonchalant, cynically aware that the painting is on loan from a church altar, so thoroughgoing a rascal that he not only carries on an affair with his henchman's wife but uses the husband's unwitting help to break it off when his interest flags...