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...Philosophizing Wolf." Though he is one of the world's most eminent logicians, Bertie Russell has achieved ever wider cold war fame as one of its most illogical eminences. A wispy, white-maned aristocrat who, like a fictional intellectual once described by Novelist Aldous Huxley, resembles "an extinct saurian." Russell is a brooding, old-fashioned agnostic who for most of his life has been torn between his view that the human race is irredeemably wicked and his conviction that he can save it. At one time he was so critical of Communism that Soviet propaganda labeled him "a philosophizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Billets-Doux from Bertie | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...Boost. Rolls-Royce's founding genius was the late Henry Royce, a compulsive tinkerer who in 1904 built an auto so silent and efficient that it won him the financial backing of Charles Stewart Rolls, an elegant aristocrat who owned a London auto sales agency. In 1906 the pair began turning out the famed Silver Ghost, a car that stayed in production for 19 years. Royce was a fanatic on mechanical perfection, and his high standards have become the company's most hallowed tradition. At Rolls-Royce's auto plant in northwest England, Rolls cars (which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Pursuit of Perfection | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

James Bruce, a gingerish Scottish aristocrat, was the first Briton to penetrate to the headwaters of the Blue Nile, at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Bruce's intrusion into the "nightmarish fantasy of Ethiopian affairs," where he casually joined as it suited him one or another of the chronic little local wars, is a historic comedy with tragic forebodings. Bruce himself was an arrogant braggart, and Moorehead has great fun with his efforts to discredit the stories of missionaries who had been there before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: River of History | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

Butlers & Bedspreads. Swimming pools, cocktail lounges, restaurants, wall-to-wall carpeting and TV-nowadays, they are just the beginning. Guests at the four su-permotels of the Aristocrat chain in Chicago hardly notice such conveniences when they are ensconced in the "Rogue Room"at the Essex Inn, which is decorated with paintings of nude ladies and boasts a circular bed surrounded by a curtain of beads, or in Room 908 in Ascot House, which is decorated in Japanese style and comes complete with kimonos for its occupants. Ascot House also has a sidewalk cafe and a Cafe French Market where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Opulence in the Cabin | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

...Aristocrat chain's $20 million, 75O-room McCormick Inn, which will have three swimming pools, six restaurants, a toboggan slide and a putting green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Opulence in the Cabin | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

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