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Most delightful of all is the quaint, marvelously painted village set, designed by Bill Buckingham. The stage itself is slightly small for the size of the cast, but at least it reminds you of Lowell House. As if one could ever forget. The spirit of the notorious Lowell House Christmas plays is ever-present, and ayone who wants to read sex into the lines will have exceptionally meaty material ("You are round and ample/Let Leander have a sample"). Oh yes! Former Master Elliott Perkins' initials are inscribed above a door-way. What else could provide a more appropriate setting...
...that cuts a little ice," E. M. Forster once wrote, "is affection or the possibility of affection." When his 85th birthday rolled around on New Year's Day, the author of A Passage to India eschewed any public remembrances or large party, instead spent the holidays with Robert Buckingham, 40, a Coventry probation officer. The two met when Buckingham was ten and have been fast friends ever since. "I spent a very quiet day on my birthday with him, his wife and their three children," said the gentle, aging bachelor. "I suppose by American standards...
...house its exhibits at global trade fairs; they have represented America in Warsaw, Casablanca, Istanbul, Kabul, Tunis, Lima, New Delhi, Accra, Bangkok, Tokyo, Osaka. The Russians were so impressed by the 200-ft.-diameter dome at the 1959 U.S. exhibit in Moscow that they bought it. "Mr. J. Buckingham Fuller must come to Russia and teach our engineers," garbled Premier Khrushchev...
Married. Alan Dobie, 31, spit-and-polish R.A.F. drillmaster in the hit Broadway comedy, Chips With Everything; and Maureen Scott, 20, English folk singer; he for the second time; in a 9 a.m. ceremony Monday at Gerrard's Cross, Buckingham, for which Dobie jetted to London and back without missing a single performance...
...fine Saturday morning can forget about politics, except me." Not a chance. Back came Butler to surrender. Then, at last, the hour of glory: Home's appearance on the doorstep, his smiling announcement that he was off to see the Queen, the quiet talk with Elizabeth in the Buckingham Palace audience chamber as sun softened the palace gardens and a military band played for the changing of the guard in the forecourt. Had he been able to form a government? Replied Lord Home: "Yes, I have, and I have kissed hands with the Queen on my appointment as Prime...