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Second Finch. That was the prosecution's picture of Bernie Finch. The other, carefully characterized by the doctor himself with the help of brilliant Criminal Lawyer Grant Cooper, was a frustrated loving husband. He happily shared a king-sized 7 ft. by 7 ft. double bed with his wife, he said, until he was driven into the arms of another woman by his wife's frigidity after the birth of their son in 1953. He testified volubly about his love affair with Carole, a onetime photographer's model, and the trysting apartments he rented under an assumed...
...GRANT MOVES SOUTH (564 pp.) - Bruce latton- Lltfle, Brown...
This new book by Bruce Catton, a veteran composer on Civil War themes (A Stillness at Appomattox] represents the second movement in a planned symphonic trilogy on Ulysses S. Grant. It is scored for the gentle woodwinds of camp life and hearthside as well as for the big brasses and percussion of battle. Taking over the work begun by the late Lloyd Lewis with Captain Sam Grant (1950), Author Catton deals with Grant's astonishing growth in two years from hesitant commander to superb tactician...
Chomped Cigar. In appearance, Grant was usually the antihero. He trudged through the war chomping a cigar, wearing an old slouch hat and a short blue coat without insignia. One perceptive Union officer saw him as a man with "no nonsense, no sentiment; only a plain businessman of the republic, there for the one single purpose of getting that command across the river in the shortest time possible." Grant learned by doing, and learned slowly. Leading his regiment against the Confederates for the first time, he was beset by a "cold, unreasoned sort of panic," and would have turned back...
North by Northwest. Hitchcock at his best, with Gary Grant and Eva Marie Saint dodging Communist spies in a shoot-'em-up that ricochets from Madison Avenue to Mount Rushmore...