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...Three of the Beatles being married has nothing to do with lessening their popularity. They are not here for fans to marry, but to entertain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 16, 1966 | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...Miguel, a sturdy successor to such intelligent children's classics as Misty and Island of the Blue Dolphins, is a labor of love by the same makers, Producer Robert Radnitz and Director James Clark, who keep turning out evidence that a movie can entertain, educate and enlarge the experience of youngsters without driving their parents up the wall. Miguel refreshes the spirit like a week at a mountain camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Growing Up in New Mexico | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith gets a degree there will be a riot, and that would bother the alumni, and the whole graduation show is designed to entertain the alumni anyway, so you can count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harry Truman Won't Get Degree at Commencement For 20th Straight Year Since Becoming President | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...happy to see him go. But Gustavus Ohlinger, a cub reporter for the campus magazine, thought his fellow newsman was worth a story. He trailed Churchill to his hotel, talked his way past an aide, and asked for an interview. Churchill ordered two bottles of whisky, and proceeded to entertain Ohlinger with his wide-ranging opinions until 5 in the morning. A Churchill sampler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Advice to the World | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

Iris Murdoch (A Severed Head) has put readers on warning that novels by Oxford philosophy dons are apt to baffle as well as entertain. The same warning applies to Accident, by Nicholas Mosley (who is, coincidentally, the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, former chief of the British Union of Fascists), which is about an Oxford philosophy don, and which raises the art of the intellectual tease to the level of mild torture. There is no doubt that in Accident a fictional design of subtlety and distinction has been attempted. But it is a literary jigsaw puzzle with perhaps some extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All About Knowing | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

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