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Christie quickly became mistress of complex, cerebral plotting. Though she once wrote a book based on the Lindbergh kidnaping (Murder on the Orient Express), she would probably have been powerless even in her prime to turn the Bronfman case into fiction. It was too badly bungled. Among the 65 thrillers she has written in a 55-year career are several classics: The ABC Murders is a fiendish triple trap, Murder in the Clouds, a sleek variant of the locked-room ploy set in the cabin of a small airplane, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw, a neat bit of one-upmanship...
Edith dissolved her marriage to Teddy after he took $50,000 from her trust fund to support a mistress in Boston. After World War I, during which she led a major effort to house and feed French and Belgian refugees, she divided her time between an estate north of Paris and a villa on the Riviera. Much of her later work was little better than contemporary soap opera, written by formula to keep her expensive life-style going. But the best of it, like The Age of Innocence, returned to the once despised world of her childhood, which she dissected...
...Senator Frank Church's special committee that is investigating U.S. intelligence programs has also been accumulating data on the FBI. Last week TIME learned that the committee has heard some startling reports of misdeeds, break-ins and cover-ups, including the story of an agent whose mistress was linked to the Soviet...
Comely Agent. A military junta took over, much to Agee's satisfaction. Still he kept close tabs on the generals. The mistress of one of his agents was the official stenographer for Cabinet meetings; Agee was privy to transcripts before the new governors. The CIA concentrated heavily on discovering the secrets of Cubans, Soviets and satellites. Agents installed eavesdropping bugs in apartments. Lip readers studied films taken of Soviet officials strolling in their embassy gardens. If the subtle approach failed, the Company happily played the role of pimp for overamorous Soviet officials. One was lured into...
...life is an enactment of that aphorism. His encounters serve chiefly to erode his soul and corrupt those who enter his life. A girl who falls in love with him leaps from a roof and becomes paralyzed. His closest friend goes insane and attempts to decapitate him. A mistress who has misbehaved is turned over to three derelicts to be gang-raped. Yet Tarden is also capable of whimsical decencies. A political prisoner is released when Tarden blackmails his jailers; like the poor folk in Grimm's fairy tales, people who aid the agent are given windfall rewards...