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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a rubber truncheon, and dumping him into the Neva River. Now, 50 years after the murder, the prince will have the pleasure of watching someone else do the job. His recent book, The End of Rasputin, is being filmed near the prince's home in Paris, with English Actor Peter McEnery giving the fatal mugging to Gert (Goldfinger) Frobe...
...usually in revolt against a conservative, straitlaced childhood. But Muggeridge rebelled against a conventional left-wing upbringing. His father was a Fabian Socialist; his mother was a proper working-class girl. He married Kitty Dobbs, niece of Fabian Founder Beatrice Webb. When he journeyed to India to teach English, he urged his students to rebel against British rule...
...Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out." So wrote English Literary Critic Cyril Connolly, and many psychiatrists have been inclined to agree. What happens when a diet sets the thin man free? Does he enjoy his liberty? Not necessarily, reports Northwestern University Psychiatrist Howard D. Kurland...
Fallen Angel. Neither loot nor limelight has ever seduced Scofield. The most introverted of English actors, he avoids public places, parties and the press. Between performances, he commutes by train to his cottage 50 miles into rustic Sussex, lives "a complete family life" with his wife, Actress Joy Parker, their two children, some horses and dogs. "It sounds funny for an actor to say it," he says, "but I haven't any desire for the center of the stage...
Died. Heimito von Doderer, 70, Austria's most formidable novelist, whose widely praised The Demons, a 1,334-page epic 25 years in the writing of Vienna's whipped-cream and coffee-house society in the late 1920s, introduced him to the English-speaking world in 1961, after which two more (Every Man a Murderer, The Waterfalls of Slunj) of his many novels were translated into English, but neither so successfully; following abdominal surgery; in Vienna...