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Tunes of Glory. Alec Guinness is uncannily lifelike as a roaring extravert of a mustang colonel who becomes both hero and villain in a Scottish garrison tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 2, 1961 | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...like ginger and a temper to match. Remarks: Jock loves the battalion, the battalion loves Jock, and the paughty people who see this picture will love him too. because Jock Sinclair is one of the most lifelike creatures that ever sprang full-snooted from the jovial brow of Sir Alec Guinness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 26, 1960 | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...line-up today will put Smith on top, Hampy Hallowall, Tony Lake, Bob wartsman, and Paul Sullivan rounding the first five. Roger Wiegand, Doug Clark Grew, and Alec McDonnell complete the team...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Squash Varsity to Take On Army; Hemerway Contest Rated Toss-Up | 12/17/1960 | See Source »

...last four Crimson players are all sophomores, except for eighth-ranked Joe Grew. Doug Walter and Roger Welgan are playing sixth and seventh, and Alec McDonald is holding down the ninth spot...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Squash Team to Play Engineers; Crimson Favored to Win Match | 12/14/1960 | See Source »

...consul," and the independent-conservative Spectator, far from disagreeing, called the comparison "apt" and added: "The Earl of Home at his best has shown signs of equine intelligence." The object of all this objurgation is one of unflappable Mac's most steadfast supporters and closest confidants. Called "Gentle Alec" by his friends, tall, tweedy Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 57, belongs to that diminishing number of landed Britons who go into politics as an inherited duty. His ancestors were border lairds who fought alternately for the English and the Scots. His nephew, Robin Douglas-Home, used to play the piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: House & Home | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

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