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BLACK COMEDY is a slambang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit-agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...
...addition to Dunlop, the members of the new Committee of Seven are Herschel C. Baker, professor of English; Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor; Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History; George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Edward S. Mason, Lamont University Professor; and J. C. Street, Professor of Physics
...Bucket Brigade. As consternation spread in the coastal counties of Devon and Cornwall, Prime Minister Wilson set up a ministerial-level emergency committee to coordinate local and national measures, named it "Operation Canute," after the 11th century English king who ordered the waves to recede-and got dunked. When all hopes of salvaging the tanker and its remaining cargo died, Wilson ordered several flights of fighter-bombers to zero in on the Torrey Canyon, then headed for his vacation retreat on the oil-threatened Scilly Isles to watch the action. For three days, the planes plastered the Torrey Canyon with...
...saying: "It's so easy to go wrong. I think you should live for quite a while with the man you love before even thinking of marriage." Well, she's only known the fellow for seven months, but they both seem sufficiently convinced. Lynn and English-born Actor John Clark, 34, announced they would be married over the weekend in an Ethical Culture ceremony in Manhattan. Explained Lynn: "We're not Ethical Culturists, atheists, Buddhists or agnostics, but we do believe in having the Ethical man along." Asked about her earlier pronouncements on marriage, she smiled...
Walking Paintings. It is a wise child that knows its own father. Nicolette Devas, 55, British painter and novelist (Nightwatch, Bonfire), had two of them: her natural father, Francis Macnamara, best described as a genius-at-large, and her adoptive father, Augustus John, painter, patron of English gypsies, and uncrowned king of bohemia...