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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FEET TALL. An orphaned British lad (Fergus McClelland) wandering alone through Africa falls in with a grizzled old diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) in a crackling adventure story with the charm of Huck Finn and the ruggedness of a Hemingway safari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Apr. 2, 1965 | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

MALCOLM L. DIAMOND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 2, 1965 | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...tragedy of Sam and Henny is no grand Sophoclean descent into doom. They live like a couple of roaches battling over garbage, and fate simply sluices them down the drain. But every page is written with battering intensity. The Man Who Loved Children is a big black diamond of a book, an exotic and virulent attar of hatred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: There's No Place Like Home | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...aunt. He joins a Syrian peddler in the desert and, when the Syrian meets disaster, takes his muiles and money and continues south. He eludes well-meaning tourists near Luxor, covers nearly 2,000 tense miles by boat, train and foot before he falls in with a grizzled old diamond poacher (Robinson) whose wilderness hideout looks like paradise enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: African Odyssey | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...brisk damn-said-the-duchess style: "I met Jack Kennedy in November 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. We went out one night on a double date . . . and I seduced a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz." Now, five months after the last installment appeared. Dial Press has published this tidied-up though not cleaned-up hard-cover version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Public Act | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

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