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...Other famous men have been martyrs to gall bladders or kidney stones. Among them: Samuel Pepys, the 17th-century English diarist who suffered most of his life from kidney and bladder stones, finally died of them; Napoleon Bonaparte, who was plagued by agonizing gallstone colic from the age of 30 until his death...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Thrush agents plan brain surgery on Napoleon Solo in "The Green Opal Affair." Repeat...
...rediscovery-at least by the camp set. But some of the best contemporary mystery writers remain curiously underappreciated. Among them are Englishman Andrew Garve (The Cuckoo Line Affair); John D. MacDonald, the O'Hara of the whodunit; Australia's Arthur W. Upfield, whose detective hero, Napoleon Bonaparte, is half aborigine; Donald Hamilton, whose Matt Helm is a sort of Yankee 007; and Ed McBain, a master of suspenseful prose, who in real life is Evan Hunter, author of The Blackboard Jungle...
...drew from the Bible, such as Rose of Sharon, Star of Bethlehem, or Jacob's Ladder. Others were celebrations of American history: Whig's Defeat, Eagles and Stars, and red, white and blue flag patterns. Others incorporated Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs or laurel leaves, in recognition of Napoleon's neoclassic symbol of glory. Superstitious quilt makers often spoiled the symmetry deliberately in order not to imitate God's perfection and thus tempt divine wrath...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). In "The Bow Wow Affair," THRUSH tries a putsch with some pooches, but Napoleon Solo and Illya have the last bark. Repeat...