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Standing in the glow of the psychedelic lights of the ship's theater, the Cunard chairman, Sir Basil Smallpeice, announced that the ship was in such sad shape that the company would refuse delivery until everything was straightened out by the builders, Glasgow's Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. With that, Cunard scrubbed two scheduled cruises this month and one in February; the cancellations cost the company at least $2,160,000. When the ship will finally be able to go into service remained uncertain...
...Literally, Place of the Skull, Lobnoye Mes to is a large masonry platform near the Cathedral of Basil the Blessed. In czarist days, it was used as a place of supplication and as the site of royal orders. The unpleasant name probably dates from the reign of Ivan the Terrible, who had his enemies executed there...
...best is "Odessa," a pleasant little soft-shoe routine between illicit lovers Basil (David Paterson) and Studella (Nick Clark...
...actor wound up his assignment in a George Hamilton movie in Munich and returned to the U.S. He had already done a few TV stints of the Tarzan stripe: one commercial, an episode on Batman, three stints on Bewitched. The Tarzan role was typical: he played Brigadier Sir Basil Bertram, a blimpish general...
...well that he was invited back as Sir Basil in two succeeding Tarzan segments-and then it seemed as if every TV producer in Hollywood was after this new property. He appeared in guest shots on Daniel Boone, Red Skelton and Pat Boone's syndicated interview show. In high style, he played the heavy last week...