Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dark & Charmed. Based on a novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas' movie was commissioned in the late '40s by a subsidiary of the J. Arthur Rank organization. But Rank dissolved the subsidiary before the film could be produced, and the script vanished into the Rank bank. Richard Burton owns it now, in partnership with a New York producer, and sooner or later Burton intends to commit the story to film, with himself starring as an island trader named Wiltshire...
...world. Toward the end of the film, she returns to town, reunites with him at a dance, makes love to him in a park, and succeeds in getting him to a train station to begin his freedom ride. They will go off and live together in London. From Richard Burton to the Duke of Windsor, any man could be expected to drop everything and follow her. But not this crow. The train pulls out with her aboard, him on the platform-an ending far more moving in the film than it was in either the Keith Waterhouse novel...
...perkily proves that the eternal triangle is still good for laughs. The triangle consists of Author Van Johnson, Wife Janet Leigh and Literary Agent Martha Hyer, who sells Van's novel to a publisher, a book club, a Broadway producer and a movie company ("Paramount wants it for Burton, O'Toole, Olivier, Loren and Fabian"). Not content with her 10%, she tries to collect the author...
...Charles Burton Marshall, research associate at the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research, is the Thursday lecturer. His talk on the "Predicament of Diplomacy" begins at 4 p.m. in Burr...
...hygiene and improvements in pesticides the problem seemed academic for many Western countries. Now, the great increase in tourist and business travel to undersanitized parts of the world means that the bedbug has to be taken seriously once again. And not only for its infuriating bite. Dr. George J. Burton, a medical entomologist for the U.S. Public Health Service who has studied bedbugs in India and British Guiana, says in Public Health Reports that the bedbug has been accused of carrying the microbes of no fewer than 30 infectious diseases: anthrax, brucellosis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, leprosy, paratyphoid fever, plague, pneumococcal...