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...yolk and white, regurgitated the crushed shell. There was Bug-Eyes, the needle-clawed female lemur, who daintily dabbed at her petal-thin ears with a drop of her own water as if applying perfume. But the most colorful character in the book is not an animal but the Fon of Bafut, a royal hedonist with a joyous appetite for women, dance, song and drink, in the form of tumblers of Scotch, gin and mimbo, the native palm potion. More than 6 ft. tall and past 80 in age, the gorgeously robed Fon moves through Author Durrell's pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fon's Fauna | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

Next question came, a little apologetically, from the Des Moines Register's Richard L. Wilson. He wanted the President's view fon Manhattan Lawyer Grenville Clark's new book, World Peace Through World Law,* which proposes setting up a world legal order by modifying the United Nations Charter. He had not read this latest Clark book, said Ike, but was familiar with other Clark writings in the same vein. Moreover, he and Secretary Dulles had discussed world-law prospects "only within the last few days. I, myself, quoting my favorite author, wrote a short chapter to conclude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Long View | 7/14/1958 | See Source »

...FON GAIL Mobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...General Assembly's Trusteeship Committee was told that the centenarian Fon of Bikom, tribal king in the British Cameroons, should be allowed to keep all his wives. Said Awni Khalidy, delegate from Iraq: "We should leave the man alone. It is enough to handle 100 women at one time. May God give him strength in his arduous task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Specialist's Eye | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Amazed at Fon W. Boardman's list of the ten "most boring" classics to "most people," in TIME, July 17 ... It is unquestionable that Richardson's Pamela, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Goethe's Faust and others in his list may be boring to those in search of thrills . . . [But] bores do not become classics, nor do their works last four centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Powerful Weapon | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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