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Weaver has already launched a "Wise Old Men" series to bring such elders as Bertrand Russell, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Bernhard Berenson onto TV screens, and he likes to talk of whole future programs devoted to cultural events. But Weaver's principal preoccupation is still the problem of turning his gamble into a success among televiewers and advertisers...
...double or triple the size of our school," Bertrand Fox, Director of Research at the Business School, said yesterday, "but we can train additional teachers and researchers...
...often happens in the best-regulated societies, Great Britain is currently undergoing a spate of court cases over obscenity in books. Last week seven of the nation's bestselling authors (including Somerset Maugham, Bertrand Russell and J. B. Priestley) took recourse to that most British of responses: a joint letter of protest to the editor of the London Times. "It would be disastrous to English literature," they wrote, "if authors had to write under the shadow of the Old Bailey if they failed to produce works suitable for the teen-ager...
...Barred bluebloods saw red when divorced American Actor Douglas Fairbanks got into the enclosure. But there was nothing they could do. (Fairbanks got his passes through the U.S. embassy; had he been a British subject he would have stayed outside with his peers, Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Bertrand Russell and Randolph Churchill...
...Night has an authentic flavor because Novelist Henry is something of an expert on life in English prisons, having herself served an eight-month term in 1950 after being convicted of knowingly cashing forged checks (she pleaded, and still pleads, not guilty). She is 40, pretty, a cousin of Bertrand Russell, and a great-great-grandniece of Sir Robert Peel.* In prison Author Henry was called "the lidy," and told, "You talk lovely, but it don't get you far, do it, if you end up here?" But she turned her experience to good account with Women in Prison...