Word: mihailovich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasures of any roman-fleuve lies in keeping track of the pasts and permutations of vast numbers of characters. One way and another, the war introduces and eradicates many of Powell's figurants. The ditching of the Yugoslav Chetnik Leader Mihailovich in favor of Tito costs the life of Peter Templer, one of Jenkins' oldest friends (and a veteran of novel No. 1, A Question of Upbringing), who fought with the wrong partisans. The Malayan debacle takes another of Powell's veteran characters, Charles Stringham, P.O.W. and presumed dead. The officer indirectly responsible for the orders that...
...whom Siggy's mother loved but did not marry creates hysteria in Vienna by running around costumed as a Habsburg eagle. Siggy's real father is a Yugoslav who escapes on a motorcycle in 1944, during the terrible struggle between the German army, Tito's partisans, Mihailovich's Chetniks and a Croatian terrorist gang...
Died. Boris Mihailovich Morros, 68, Hollywood producer who doubled as a U.S. cold war counterspy; of cancer; in Manhattan. Well-known for his musicals (Tales of Manhattan) in the 1930s and '40s, suave, Russian-born Morros was contacted in 1943 by the Soviets, who used his father as a hostage; he pretended to turn Communist, for years endured snubs and abuse from his fellow citizens while quietly collecting information for the FBI that helped crack Convicted Traitor Jack Soble's atom spy ring. Said Morros after it was all over: "I had to do more realistic acting than...