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Colleagues say Korda is fond of role playing. After the opening of the movie The Man Who Would Be King, friends found him playing the sergeant major. Once he strode into a sales convention in full fox-hunting gear, blowing a hunting horn and proceeding to present a book on the Maryland hunting set. Says one associate: "It was not humor. It was Korda's chance to display his sense of costume and class...
...raids in three years, arresting whores and customers alike. By last October, when a new ordinance required parlors to be licensed and all employees to be fully clothed, the number of Chicago's massage establishments had dwindled from 35 to 14. Now only five are left. Says Sergeant Bob Baker of the city's vice squad: "For some strange reason, we seem to be winning." That reason may not be the law, which has failed elsewhere, but the power of the man who ordered it enforced: Mayor Richard Daley...
Take the sleuths on the case. Sergeant De Grier and Adjutant Grijpstra cannot claim the instinct for violence or the deductive brilliance that makes for popular detectives. But the two plainclothesmen on the Amsterdam police force are far from plain. As they doggedly pursue their "eternal search" for "who knows something," they find sweetness in old whores, humor in dachshunds, beauty in drab streets...
...going on; his taunts are, significantly, not echoed by anyone else. Yet here their silence condemns the bystanders; and the final touch to the mishandling of the scene comes when the Duke pronounces his pardon, snarling out forgiveness in a voice somewhere between Don Rickles and a marine drill sergeant...
Easy Prey. The Army's shakedown capital-so far-has been Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., where 34 sergeants and one second lieutenant were investigated. Eleven of the men under scrutiny (including the lieutenant) have been fully cleared; three others have been cleared but could be recharged. Four are still under investigation, and another four -including a staff sergeant accused of taking $275-are awaiting their day in court. But twelve have been reprimanded or similarly punished, and Staff Sergeant Marshall Wilhelm has been convicted of receiving about $60 in shakedown money, fined $320 and brought down by one grade...