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...lacks the competence to weigh the man's art. Beardsley's exquisitely wrought line drawings embraced a vision of some unearthly world-part pagan myth, part Oriental mystery. It was a world inhabited by satyrs and hermaphrodites, dwarfs and dandies, by women either ornamentally angular and boyish or monstrously fat and corrupt. Often they were nude or seminude, but their bodies seemed merely part of their fantastically elaborate dress. His illustrations for such works as Wilde's Salome, Malory's Morte d' Arthur and Aristophanes' Lyslstrata were likely to include elegant versions of whippings...
...been made a Communist hero in both North and South for having destroyed 69 of the enemy-and himself-by blowing up a mine in their midst after they had surrounded his unit (TIME, March 17). U.S. psychological-warfare men were delighted when they confirmed that the boyish prisoner in the jail at My Tho was the same Be who is held up for emulation to Communist cadres in mass-produced Communist poetry, songs and stories...
Died. Reginald Denny, 75, English-born screen and stage actor, a veteran of more than 200 films, whose boyish good looks won him all-American parts in Hollywood's silent days, but whose unmistakably British diction led to a talkie career of English character and comedy roles, including Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House and a memorable Broadway takeover as Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady; of a stroke; in Middlesex...
After his epic bust-up with Jerry Lewis in 1956, Crooner Dean Martin seemed to have little more to offer than any boozily pattering straight man with a boyish twinkle and a set of imitation Crosby-Como tonsils. Indeed, a lot of his enemies and some of his friends thought that Dino would likely end his career croaking in cocktail lounges from Far Rockaway to Skokie. But there seems to be quite a market for patter and twinkle these days. Variety reported last week that Martin, 49, from his TV variety series, record royalties, club dates and movie lucre, earns...
...support should the front-running candidates stumble. "I like Chuck," says Barry Goldwater, whom Percy supported in 1964. "I've worked for him, he's worked for me. I'd support him." But Percy's chief problem is inexperience, which is only accentuated by his boyish looks...