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When Communist Spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean escaped to Moscow in 1951 just before British intelligence moved in on them, the big question was who had tipped them off that they had been discovered. The finger of suspicion pointed at Harold A.R. Philby, an officer of Britain's M.I. 6 itself, but Philby was defended in Parliament by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan and managed to survive two investigations-before himself fleeing to Moscow from Beirut in 1963. Still,"the public never learned just how big a spy "Kim" Philby really was. Last week two London newspapers-the Observer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Communist in M.I. 6 | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...briefings on U.S. intelligence operations from CIA Chief Walter Bedell Smith and knew every counterintelligence move that the CIA made. When he was final ly dismissed from M.I. 6, it was only at the insistent demand of the CIA, which had discovered his role in the wake of the Burgess-Maclean case. Even then, he was protected by his old-boy colleagues until 1962, when the confession of another Moscow spy implicated him beyond all doubt. Despite this, he was given a confidential warning that action might be taken against him, and given more than a month to disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Communist in M.I. 6 | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Preminger's cast is wild, probably deliberately so. He has Michael Caine playing a somewhat selfmade Southern wheeler-dealer, and Jane Fonda as his wife; Burgess Meredith and Madeline Sherwood portray a small-town judge and his wife; and John Philip Law and Faye Dunaway are a poor (but honest) farmer and his wife. Rounding out the cast, in two unfailingly thankless roles, are Robert Hooks -- also a poor but honest farmer -- and Diahann Carroll, the latter as a local girl gone North and corrupted...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Hurry Sundown | 6/5/1967 | See Source »

...SHORTER FINNEGANS WAKE, by James Joyce, edited by Anthony Burgess. Novelist Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) has pulled Joyce's astronomical Dublin masterpiece into the general reader's field of vision simply by cutting out two-thirds of it. There is still plenty of wit and wordplay left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Time Listings: Apr. 21, 1967 | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...SHORTER FINNEGANS WAKE, by James Joyce, edited by Anthony Burgess. Novelist Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) has pulled Joyce's astronomical Dublin masterpiece into the general reader's field of vision simply by cutting out two-thirds of it. There is still plenty of wit and wordplay left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 7, 1967 | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

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