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DYLAN. A legendary actor, Alec Guin ness, plays a legendary poet, Dylan Thom as, during his punishing reading tours of the U.S. The drama is sustained by Dylan's sly humor, poetic insights, self-abrasive remorse and fierce, hurting battles with his wife...
Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home told the House of Commons that a committee, headed by Lord Franks, had considered various proposals to honor Kennedy. The choice of the Runnymede memorial and the scholarship emerged after several months of deliberation...
...down-to-earth that the adventure story fades into the background. As a thriller, the book is slightly better than average -- not extraordinary. There is an unusually complicated plot, but one that can be seen through without undue exertion. There is the usual cast--a secret agent, Alec Lemas, assorted other agents, a chief-of-department named "Control," and a girl whom Lemas loves, and who happens to be a Communist...
Born. To Diana Douglas-Home Wolfe-Murray, 23, youngest daughter of Britain's Prime Minister; and James Archibald Wolfe-Murray, 27, executive of Glasgow's James Buchanan Ltd., makers of Black & White Scotch: their first child, a daughter (and first grandchild for 60-year-old Sir Alec); in London...
...stiff winged collars. The genuinely old-fashioned bad service that was being meted out impartially to us all was instantly recognizable as the real thing: a subtle, sophisticated Old World incompetence we Americans can never hope to emulate, the best our rustic efforts can produce being a superficial smart-alec rudery...