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Behan wrote The Scarperer in 1953, at the height of his boozy powers. Published under a pseudonym as a serial in the Irish Times, it was rediscovered only after Behan offhandedly mentioned it to his London editor nearly ten years later. Light as a feather, compassionate, unsentimental, this high comedy about low life is the most artfully constructed thing the impulsive Behan ever wrote...
...needle-nosed F-104G Super Starfighter boomed over the measured ten-mile course at 37,000 ft. above California's Edwards Air Force Base. Officials checked its speed with radar, and when blonde Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, 57, landed, she had another feather to put in her pretty cap. This time the cosmetics executive (chairman of Jacqueline Cochran, Inc.) had set the women's speed record of 1,429.2 m.p.h. at more than twice the speed of sound, easily shattering eardrums and her own 1963 record of 1,273.1 m.p.h...
...compensation laws (TIME, Feb. 21). So intense was Democratic feeling against the bill that the assembly nearly broke into a riot. Characteristically, Scranton said he was interested only in what the bill "is going to do for Pennsylvania." But no one could deny that the victory would add another feather to his national cap. Scranton, who once showed even less interest in the vice-presidential nomination than in the No. 1 job, told newsmen he would accept a vice-presidential draft. Of course, he added, he does not think a vice-presidential nominee is drafted, but he might consider...
...seriously suggested that his fellow bishops toss their jeweled episcopal rings, mitres and other symbols of office away. Just before returning to Brazil, Câmara candidly told Pope Paul that he should get rid of the sedia gestatoria (portable papal throne) and the flabella, the white ostrich feather fans carried beside it. Camara identifies with new-wave Catholic leaders, says: "The church must join the battle for development and social justice so that later people will not say the church deserted them in their hour of need because it was compromised by big business. If that happens, the church...
...James, an American girl abroad was a dovelike creature, all too easily undone by the serpentine charms of Old World society. Not everybody can accept James's lingering stereotype nowadays. But no one more volubly refutes it than pixyish, thirtyish Elaine Dundy, a Long Islander of a different feather entirely. She fluttered into London via a year in Paris in 1950, soon nested high in the cultural Establishment as the wife of Drama Critic Ken neth Tynan, and has since chronicled the peregrinations of a pair of non-innocents abroad in a pair of small, bright novels...