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Some of the biggest names in British exports are double-barreled: Rolls-Royce, Mini-Minor, Terry-Thomas. Even without the hyphen, the actor's face would probably have made his name familiar the world over. Its features are a bounderish British blend of sad sack and pukka sahib: busby brows that shoot up in startled innocence or beetle down with Mac the Knife malevolence; lugubrious eyes rocketing around like apoplectic billiard balls; a Scotch-sodden thatch of mustache, and, of course, those two front teeth, gaping wide as Becher's Brook. Wherever he takes a stroll, from Soho...
...wonder. In its plot, Fail Safe is strangely similar to Peter George's Red Alert, the 1958 novel on which Dr. Strangelove is based. When Fail-Safe (the book was sold to Hollywood but the hyphen apparently was not) was published in 1962, Novelist George sued Novelists Burdick and Wheeler for plagiarism. They settled out of court for undisclosed considerations. In any case, the issue is now academic; both pictures were produced by the same company (Columbia...
Neither brother ever misses an opportunity to downplay himself. Says Jacob, who is chairman of 13 companies: "The only reason I'm on so many boards is that I've been around so long." Marcus is even more self-effacing: "I am nothing," he says, "but a hyphen between generations." In one sense, he is right. His son Marc, 38, has already taken over the presidency of the Enskilda Bank, and is being groomed to be the next head of the clan...
...line, he estimates whether the next word will fit the remaining space. If it is a little too short, he fattens the line by adding spacers between preceding words or letters. When the next word is too long, he cuts it in two and adds a hyphen...
...tender, amusing, pathetic fable about a wildly incompatible man and woman who come together to pool their emotional losses. Caesario Grimaldi (Anthony Quinn) is an Italian-American contractor, as coarse and gravelly as raw concrete. Pamela Pew-Pickett (Margaret Leighton) is as properly British as the hyphen in her name. When they meet by appointment in a Rockefeller Center restaurant, he sloshes through double Scotches and she sips tea. But he is a wounded animal and she is a shattered teacup. His wife and her doctor-husband are having an affair, and Caesario and Pamela feel rather wistfully that they...