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...commander, C.C. Washburn, and proudly displayed it as a trophy. Forrest gallantly returned the uniform to Washburn under a flag of truce. Some weeks later, also under a flag of truce, Washburn sent Forrest a fine gray uniform made to measure by the cavalryman's own prewar Memphis tailor. As Jefferson Davis' special train left Richmond, abandoning the city to the Yankees, Foote writes, it was followed by others bearing "the marvelous and incongruous debris of the wreck of the Confederate capital." As one young lieutenant observed, "There were very few women on these trains, but among...
...central character is Poirot, played by Albert Finney; he's like a chess player who takes on a dozen opponents simultaneously. Finney's performance is the stumbling-block to the film's otherwise smooth accomplishment of its limited purpose. Finney plays Poirot as an affable tailor's dummy of a man, who wears a hairnet and a moustache band to sleep every night, and whose moustache, indeed, doesn't move when he talks. Poirot is not the coolest of detectives; he's always in control of the situation (this is no Chinatown or Maltese Falcon) but he doesn't care...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carr...
FICTION 1-Centennial, Michener (1 last week) 2-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (4) 3-Something Happened, Heller (2) 4-The Pirate, Robbin$(3) 5-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (5) 6-The Dogs of War, Forsyfh (7) 7-Harlequin, West (9) 8-Jaws, BencMey (6) 9-The Ebony Tower, Fowles 10-The Glory and the Lightning, Caldwell...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, (le Carr?...