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Rather than "hang around for the bitter end," Sandhurst-bred Major Powell, 49, quit after 28 years in the army. He went to work for a Suez Canal contractor, had been jobless since the British invasion when he wrote a letter to Box F-1794 the Times, in answer to a classified ad for an advertising salesman. Wrote Powell: "I can ride a show jumper or fight a duel. I can swim a river, kick a cad where it hurts-or play chess with a debutante. I once shot a bandit in Sumatra. I could do anything from baby sitting...
...last of huge piles of Butterbrote in waxed paper as their cantankerous and impatient offspring squabbled over who was to sit where in the family Volkswagen. Dutchmen and Danes by the thousands were leaving their lowland homes for a brief, refreshing holiday in Germany's nearby mountains. Mountain-bred Swiss were flocking to the gently rolling hill country of Lake Constance. Once again, the great seasonal migration was on, and all over Europe indefatigable optimists were crossing and crisscrossing each other's paths in a brief, determined effort to sniff the green grass growing in somebody else...
...Hara had saved Tara from the carpetbaggers. When strongminded Cinemactress Vivien Leigh violated the slumberous sanctity of Britain's House of Lords (TIME, July 22) to campaign against the projected demolition of London's time-hallowed St. James's Theater, she got a well-bred bounce, but lordly mustaches fluttered in admiration. From a great commoner came stronger support; doughty Sir Winston Churchill grumped, "As a parliamentarian, I cannot approve your disorderly method," nevertheless pledged $1,400 to save the theater, which was to be replaced by an office building. Later, cooing, "Oh, how I do love...
This is what Historian André Castelot chose to do in Queen of France. His biography of Marie Antoinette scarcely hints at the desperate conditions that bred the French Revolution and doomed the King and Queen. Castelot is interested only in the Queen, whose flawless complexion, royal bearing and gilded extravagance made her the peerless symbol of aristocratic absolutism. For a symbol is all that Marie Antoinette ever was; and even if she had never squandered millions on jewelry, chateaux, make-believe villages and elaborate carnivals, the deluge would still have come, forced from below by sufferings as real...
...Rome Opera's marble-floored foyer into a sound booth lined with $50,000 worth of triple-track tape recorders, loudspeakers, amplifiers and oscillators. With promotion and distribution costs, Victor figures to sink $250,000 in Butterfly with a relatively unknown cast of young singers headed by Philadelphia-bred Soprano Anna Moffo, $250,000 in Tosca, which features such established names as Soprano Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Tenor Jussi Bjoerling (Cavaradossi), Baritone Leonard Warren (Scarpia...