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...Edgar Hoover first appeared on our cover in August of 1935. The director and his Federal Bureau of Investigation were portrayed as antidotes to the headlines of Depression and organized crime. For by then the FBI's 623 trench-coated agents had zeroed in on such notorious criminals as John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, and "Pretty Boy" Floyd. When operatives cornered George "Machine Gun" Kelly at his Memphis hideout in 1933, Kelly said he surrendered rather than be killed by "G-men," a sobriquet that has adhered to agents in movies and on cereal box tops through the years...
...well publicized in pro football, the Rams "Fearsome Foursome" and the Vikings "Purple People Eaters during the past decade, quarterbacks and running backs still remain the celebrities of the sport. Certainly the action along the line of scrimmage gets only passing attention from TV cameras and fans. But this trench warfare is as fierce as anything in sport. Grunting and cursing, players club, ram and pound each other in two- and three-second rumbles that begin anew with every play...
...bullet in Sarajevo destroyed a peace so long and so continuous that every European had come to take it for granted, as a given part of the fabric of his or her life. Nobody in England, France or Germany, not even the generals, had any idea what trench warfare-the dominant reality of the Western Front-would be like. When it came, it was indefinable: hundreds of thousands of young men existing like stupefied moles in the badly shored-up gutters of mud and decaying flesh that zigzagged their way across France, driven toward the machine guns of Poperinghe...
...east coast. Some time during the next few weeks, crude will begin arriving at Teesside, England, through a 220-mile pipeline from the Ekofisk field in Norway's sector of the North Sea. The oil belongs to Norway but is being pumped ashore to Britain; a deep undersea trench has prevented construction of a pipeline from Ekofisk to the Norwegian mainland...
...period piece that means to do honor to the traditions of Raymond Chandler and the hard-boiled melodrama. But through its own dim eagerness it ends up making a mockery of them. How can anyone take such an enterprise seriously, after all, when the detective runs around in a trench coat six inches too short and 25 years...