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...times a year, Marsden said, "we get telegrams which lead nowhere. Last week, one man claimed to have discover- ed a colossal nova, but it turned out to be the planet Saturn. It usually taken a fey seconds of observation to find the false alarm...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Recent Graduate Discovers Comet | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...result may be Texan-presidential in scale, but in detail the wedding bears all the diverse and diverting hallmarks of Luci Johnson. The bride-to-be is at once gay and fey and deeply religious. She displays Johnson traits in abundance: she is strong-willed and sensitive, voluble and introspective, fiercely loyal to her family yet irrepressibly independent. Lady Bird describes her younger daughter as both a "sprite" and a "philosopher." Lyndon Johnson once said: "I have known this little ruler all her life. She entered the world with a commanding voice and has been taking over ever since." Luci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Three-Ring Wedding | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

MORGAN! David Warner and Vanessa Red grave brighten a black British comedy in which a fey young artist is destroyed by his emotional dependence on Karl Marx, King Kong and his former wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jun. 10, 1966 | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

Untidy Muse. This book makes no more sense than the king's English, but it projects the same fey charm. It is no longer than a summer's reverie in an aluminum chaise longue, where it was clearly designed to be read. Its gossamer plot drifts like a cloud; its characters have all the substantiality of that scarlet flash in the lilac bush that may have been a hummingbird. What delicate diplomatic mission has brought Bemis to Suruk? Why does Sajjid offer him $1,000,000 to come, and why does Bemis refuse the fee? For what reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reverie | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...jazz idiom. Her repertory is a treatise on variety and taste, spun by a voice of agile grace and knowing jazz inflection and phrasing. Yet heard in person, she poses a problem. Willowy, tawny, perfectly featured and somehow kissed by ice, she seems sometimes too beautiful for the consistently fey interpretation she gives to the lyrics of her songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: The Greatest Pretender | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

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