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Arabian Nights. Frederick Clegg never admits to a crude thought! He is one of England's New People, the upwardly mobile lower classes. A post office clerk, he has a harmless hobby: collecting butterflies. He lives in his dreams, especially one about a pretty girl, Miranda Grey, who is everything he is not: gay, warm and perceptive. "The dream began where she was being attacked by a man," Clegg thinks to himself in his flat, monotonous manner, "and I ran up and rescued her. Then somehow I was the man that attacked her, only I didn't hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caliban Revisited | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

Court Appeal. In Sydney. Australia, District Judge Eric Clegg ordered a new trial after a juror winked at a woman witness, despite the juror's explanation: "I caught the lady's eye, and my mother taught me it was polite to acknowledge a greeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 11, 1957 | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...Woman's Secret. In Columbus, Ohio, after police, alerted by suspicious merchants, followed Catherine Clegg, 34, found in her car and in a trick skirt, a chicken, two pounds of butter, a small ham, oranges, a package of chopped beef, a pound of perch, a pound of bacon, a steak, a box of Kleenex, a bottle of milk of magnesia, two kinds of toilet soap, two bottles of headache tablets, a couple of combs, a bottle of shampoo and two kinds of hair bleach-almost none of which had been paid for-she explained: "I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 23, 1957 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

Died. Margaret Wycherly, 74, veteran British-born actress of stage (Jane Clegg, Tobacco Road) and screen (Sergeant York); in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

...take the most measured and courteous exception to your paragraph about me and my partner Charles Clegg in your People section [Feb. 27]? Not the part that says I am an old codger, a boozer, and no-gooder, all of which is doubtless too true. The private car Virginia City is not, however, my car. It belongs jointly and in equal partnership to Charles Clegg and Lucius Beebe, and I would be indebted to you if, in the private car dossier in your library devoted to such matters or to me and Mr. Clegg against our ultimate obituaries, you made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 19, 1956 | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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