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HADRIAN VII. Alec McCowen exhibits an outstanding command of technique as Frederick William Rolfe in this deft dramatization of Rolfe's novel of wish fulfillment, Hadrian the Seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Apr. 18, 1969 | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

HADRIAN VII is a deft dramatization by Peter Luke of fantasy and fact in the life of Frederick William Rolfe, the misfit first rejected for the priesthood and then astonishingly elected Pope. Alec McCowen's performance is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 7, 1969 | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...Apollo 8 Command Pilot Frank Borman has had some rarefied moments on earth since reentry. Last week, for instance, a European tour took him from Buckingham Palace to the Elysée Palace to a dinner with Belgium's King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola. Borman proved himself a deft diplomat. In England he pointed out that Apollo's fuel cell was based on an invention by a Cambridge scientist. In Paris he praised French Science Fiction Author Jules Verne in a personal letter to his grandson, Jean-Jules Verne. After an audience with President Charles de Gaulle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

HADRIAN VII is a deft dramatization by Peter Luke of fact and fantasy in the life of Frederick William Rolfe, a would-be priest who dreamed of being called first to the cloth and then to the throne of St. Peter-becoming the second English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 31, 1969 | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...higher quality, and by "out" foreign foods like Mexican and Chinese. Parks feels that his products are spicy enough to ride the fringes of the foreign trend. To insure their quality, the boss himself acts as an official taster. Recently he solved one executive problem by making a rather deft change. Parents and even schoolchildren had written in to complain about the company's shrill radio spot ads, in which a child cries, "More Parks Sausages, Mom!" That has since been modified to "More Parks Sausages, Mom-please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executives: Up and Out | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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