Word: allens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPLENDID PAUPER, by Allen Andrews. The zany life and beguiling times of Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's scapegrace uncle, who was born to lose with grace, charm and class...
SHOWTIME (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). British Comedian Dave Allen hosts an international variety hour. Guests include U.S. Comedian Frank Fontaine, British Vocalist Dusty Springfield and Comedian Max Wall, a Moroccan balancing act, Irish dancers and an Australian yodeler...
...SPLENDID PAUPER by Allen Andrews. 256 pages. Lippincott...
Biographer Allen Andrews, a British freelance writer, has sized up both Frewen and the times delightfully. He is right to point out that though other adventurers have enriched both themselves and vast territories with wilder schemes, they are perhaps less interesting as people. Cecil Rhodes, the empire builder, died leaving Rhodesia and the Kimberly Mines. Frewen, an empire bungler, left only splendid material for a loser's biography...
That isn't exactly Ode on a Grecian Urn; neither is Benedikt picking his way through seven types of ambiguity. For all their seeming frivolity, these lines exhibit a directness that has been increasingly admired ever since the mid-'50s when Allen Ginsberg and the beats accelerated the popularity of the simple, charged statement...