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Hopping purposefully in and out of the open cockpits is Anti-hero George Peppard, cast as Stachel, an upstart fly-boy whose killer instincts devastate both friend and foe before he can claim "the Blue Max," pilot slang for Germany's equivalent of the Medal of Honor.* In the novel by Jack D. Hunter, Stachel was a murderous, alcoholic blackmailer, but a trio of adapters has softened the edges of Peppard's role, following the unwritten Hollywood law that a hero-heel must be boyish, winning, and a terror abed. As a nod to custom, death...
...specter of my teens was that Mysterious Upstart Sylvia Plath [June 10]. 1 was one of the also-rans who copped local awards and got published on everybody's amateur page, while Miss Plath carried off the big prizes. In college we were haunted by her, too, as she plunged into print in Mademoiselle and became a Seventeen fashion editor in their annual contest. Then she won a Fulbright. She had everything except an appreciation of life, even at its worst, and of her own possibilities...
...Snuggling. It took the upstart Napoleon to bring it back to its former glory. In 1805, he had the palace redecorated in Empire style for himself and Josephine. The day of his divorce from her, Napoleon returned to the Trianon, spent the night there alone. His remorse was short lived: he was soon back with his new Queen, Marie-Louise, each with a separate wing. Last King of France to reside there was the bourgeois Louis Philippe, who raised a chuckle when he widened the bed in the Queen's chamber by a foot (overleaf) so that...
...traditions do not change the fact of rampant change, which evokes a turn-of-the-century observation from the Tascosa (Texas) Pioneer: "Truly this is a world which has no regard for the established order of things, but knocks them sky west and crooked, and lo, the upstart hath the land and its fatness...
...while, in the finals, it looked as if Upstart Niederhoffer was going to get his comeuppance. Sam Howe won the first game easily, 15-11. But Niederhoffer fought back to win the second. With the score tied 13-13 in the third, he mused loudly, "What shall I do?", then uncorked a smashing serve for an ace and went on to win. In the last game, Vic caught his weary opponent leaning the wrong way with two successive backhand drop shots, ran out the match 15-13. "Beautiful game, Victor," conceded Howe, as both exhausted players sagged against the wall...