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Lord Inverchapel (pronounced, extraordinarily enough, in-ver-chapel) would never be taken for a precious, blue-veined Evelyn Waugh character. Inverchapel looks and acts like a real, red-blooded Scot...
...Philip Ver Planck...
...Baker Street Irregulars. Readers who do not genuflect before No. 7 will note that Detective Pons shares his prototype's shortcomings along with his virtues: his puzzles aren't always puzzling and his Dr. Watson is more ponderously thick headed than is absolutely necessary. Ver dict: good...
...said, snatching off his cap, "I wouldn't order you to do anything I wouldn't do myself." As a young officer, Simpson served the usual tours of duty- Mexican border, Texas, the Philippines. He fought in World War I, was awarded the D.S.M., the Sil ver Star, the French Legion of Honor and the Croix de guerre. In 1925 he was graduated with distinction from the Command and General Staff School. In 1938 he was appointed the War College's chief of G-2 (Intelligence). In 1942 he commanded the XII Corps, the next year...
...King of Spain. He dispatched his first bull in Quito's Plaza Belmonte (named for the famed Spanish matador, Juan Belmonte) when he was 13. From his father and brothers he learned a deep love for Ecuador, the U.S. and liberty. As provocative as his verónicas are his attempts to get Ecuador to become the first South American nation to declare war on the Axis. As fierce as a toro is his anger at the Peru-Ecuador border settlement, which the Brothers Plaza describe as an "American Munich...