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Electric Clouds. This charade has been convulsing London audiences for three months. Its co-authors are Actor-Writers John Antrobus and Terence A.P.S. ("Spike") Milligan. Spike climbed Mount Everest from the inside on BBC radio's Goon Show. He also appeared in The Running, Jumping, and Standing Still Film, the craziest movie short ever made...
There are some in Britain who argue that "professionalism" should actually be avoided. Ely Devons, a professor at the London School of Economics, said on the BBC Third Program: "I am worried that the value of academic leisure is being overlooked...In throwing out the baby of reaction and conservatism in our universities, let us not throw out the bath-water of a thousand years of British academic tradition...
...British version of Mr. Peepers, the likeness ends there. Theater Critic Bernard Levin is the enfant terrible of London's West End. Long the Manchester Guardian's television reviewer, he grew "weary of spitting into the wind" in 1958 and quit. As an irascible panelist for the BBC's satiric That Was the Week That Was show, he once greeted a group of farmers with the words, "Good evening, peasants." But it is in his theater reviews for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express and more recently for the Daily Mail that his stiletto prose...
From the sumptuous isolation of his 70-room countryseat in Surrey, Billionaire J. Paul Getty, 70, told BBC tellyviewers how awful it was to be rich. Money wasn't everything, said J. Paul; "some of the best times I've had didn't cost money." What was more, "I wish I had a better personality so that I could entertain better. I'm worried that I may be on the dull side." Later, in Manhattan, jet-set Journalist Elsa Maxwell, 79, agreed with Getty all the way. "He's quite right to wish that," observed...
Official reaction was pained, undaunted, and properly free of recrimination. A more popular view was heard on BBC television, in a spleen-venting poem by Programs Editor Antony Jay, which must have startled some of old Auntie BBC's listeners.* Grimly, officials turned to alternative half-plans, designed to boost exports and seek new markets. They knew they now had to provide against the day in 1967 when the Common Market, which now imports more than $2 billion worth of British goods yearly, will be protected by a single, uniform tariff wall. At Whitehall's request, Christian Herter...