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...amateur, at that) is not of our era, with its low-keyed police efficiency. In all Europe there is only one man whose intellect can cope with the man who for ten years has pilfered art treasures without leaving the police any more of a clue than his pseudonym, Flambeau. To play this sort of thing in any but the Edwardian dress and spirit is as an acronistic as expecting Sherlock Holmes to track Dr. Moriarity with radar and an all-point bulletin. Still, Guinness and Peter Finch, as Flambeau, do their best to ignore the modern trappings of police...
...persuaded his able Minister of Finance, Edgar Faure, to move over to the Quai d'Orsay. Faure, who was Premier once himself (for 40 days in 1952) and would like to be again, is a lawyer and econo mist, a moderately successful writer of mystery stories (under the pseudonym Edgar Sanday), and a backer of the late EDC. His elevation to Foreign Minister is plainly part of Mendès' effort to stave off his threatening tumble from power by a gesture to the country's "European" wing. But agile as Mendès-France...
...FIVE SEASONS by Karl Eska (344 pp.; Viking; $3.95) was written out of his wartime experience in Soviet Asia by an anti-Nazi Austrian, who is using a pseudonym for this work. The fifth season of the title is famine - a famine brought on by the blunders of Russian planners in the Turkmen republic and made more terrible by the party's refusal to recognize its existence. The Reds keep parroting, "No one in this country goes hungry." As bodies pile up in the streets, the bosses try to explain them away as caused by typhus and by neglecting...
...Parson Dodgson added a formidable string of prejudices, e.g., against ill-natured satire, preaching sermons, "bandying small talk with dull people," "jesting and flippancy on sacred topics," negligence on the part of college servants. He wrote dozens of indignant letters to the newspapers-once, at least, under the surprising pseudonym of "Dynamite." A staunch Tory, he liked nothing better than to lie awake making corrosive anagrams on the detested name of Liberal William Ewart Gladstone, e.g., "Wild agitator! Means well...
...border, operated a laboratory for forging documents, fought in surprise raids against German and Italian barracks. He was captured by the Italians but escaped to the mountains, where he joined the famed Vercors Maquis and founded an underground newspaper. The Germans chased him to Lyons, where he took the pseudonym Pierre and went to work forging identity cards until things again got too hot. When the war ended, he was a priest with six decorations and no parish-and no great urge to settle down...