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In book 21, '''The Mischief Makers''', no longer smokes, still drinks, and still has a mustache; hopes Willy Smith will take over the Executive | In book 21, '''The Mischief Makers''', no longer smokes, still drinks, and still has a mustache; hopes Willy Smith will take over the Executive | ||
In book 2, '''Venetian Blind''' lots of stuff: | |||
Russell has said he will retire in six months. No one in his department really qualified to succeed him. the Home Secretary (who IS a Minister), Gabriel Palliser, says that Russell "was something special. He had it both ways: he ran the machine, and ran it beautifully -- the files, the dossiers, the interminable cross-checking. All that is essential, it's nine-tenths of the job, and it wouldn't be difficult to find a man to carry it. But it's the other tenth, nowadays, that counts in the pinches, and for that Russell had a flair. A nose. He smelt things...Colonel Russell is... something exceptional. He has a nose for the suspect but he detests suspicion; he's a humanist, a liberal in the oldest, best sense... you can't trust many when it comes to that sort of power." pages 12-13 | |||
Russell's room: untidyness; Benares brass and silver trophies; excellent Persian rugs; admirably attended mustache; soldierly but slightly donnish == page 34 | |||
Still smokes a pipe (54) and cigarettes when offered (60): champagne didn't agree with him... but he seldom declined it -- page 54 | |||
Says he's "an indifferent bridge player" (61) | |||
has sherry and biscuits for lunch when too busy to go out (63) | |||
"He was a churchgoer by mild conviction, but not a moralist." His vicar is a High Churchman. (64) | |||
"I'm sixty" page 123 | |||
Revision as of 18:17, 30 September 2020
info from the books as I read them
In book 21, The Mischief Makers, no longer smokes, still drinks, and still has a mustache; hopes Willy Smith will take over the Executive
In book 2, Venetian Blind lots of stuff:
Russell has said he will retire in six months. No one in his department really qualified to succeed him. the Home Secretary (who IS a Minister), Gabriel Palliser, says that Russell "was something special. He had it both ways: he ran the machine, and ran it beautifully -- the files, the dossiers, the interminable cross-checking. All that is essential, it's nine-tenths of the job, and it wouldn't be difficult to find a man to carry it. But it's the other tenth, nowadays, that counts in the pinches, and for that Russell had a flair. A nose. He smelt things...Colonel Russell is... something exceptional. He has a nose for the suspect but he detests suspicion; he's a humanist, a liberal in the oldest, best sense... you can't trust many when it comes to that sort of power." pages 12-13
Russell's room: untidyness; Benares brass and silver trophies; excellent Persian rugs; admirably attended mustache; soldierly but slightly donnish == page 34
Still smokes a pipe (54) and cigarettes when offered (60): champagne didn't agree with him... but he seldom declined it -- page 54
Says he's "an indifferent bridge player" (61)
has sherry and biscuits for lunch when too busy to go out (63)
"He was a churchgoer by mild conviction, but not a moralist." His vicar is a High Churchman. (64)
"I'm sixty" page 123