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...Adrian Darby, 26, Home is surely where the heart is-even if Meriel Douglas-Home, 24, does pronounce her name Hume, as in fume. It started to get that way eight months ago, at a performance of Aïda, when he first met the British Prime Minister's second daughter, and now the young Oxford economics don plans to make his name hers. The wedding date is March 30 at her family's Scottish estate, The Hirsel, in a ceremony to be attended only by relatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 28, 1964 | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...bomb, my army, my Europe and even, on occasion, mon Dieu." The other was a remark about the virus that has got the best of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home. Said David Frost, British M.C. of That Was the Week That Was and a guest on the American show: "Hume is in bed with flu, or if you prefer, Home is in bed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: That Was Weak, That Was | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...They are what we look for, as we skim our lynx eyes over every other page-a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; don't say just 'medieval cathedrals'-name nine. Think of a few specific examples of 'contemporary decadence,' like Natalie Wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Conning the Professor | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...fought the Sassenach. Home tried to rally his followers against the English longbowmen. "A Home! A Home!" he cried. But his men-or so legend has it-misunderstood his order and trotted off home. It was then that the family decided to avert future disasters by pronouncing the name "Hume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Winner | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

Harry's new girl friend tells him that she may be falling in love with a young poet, pale and philosophic. "Plato, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, St. Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Roger Bacon, David Hume, Paracelsus, Bishop Berkeley, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Spencer, Descartes and Pico della Mirandola," says Harry, proving himself the young man's intellectual peer. This Harry is a versatile man with words as well as ideas. When a street singer ambles past him, he tells the street singer in Anglo-Saxon syllables to go copulate with a duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Tropic of Corn | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

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