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...Twelve more were reserved by buyers in what turned out to be one of the biggest stampedes for the works of an almost unknown artist London has ever seen. Among the customers: Actors Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson and Richard Attenborough, Collector Lord Ivor Churchill, and Ohio's Toledo Museum...
...American ne'er-do-well (Humphrey Bogart) is bound for British East Africa with his Italian wife (Gina Lollobrigida) and four "business associates" (Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Marco Tulli, Ivor Bernard). "They're desperate characters," concludes one feminine fellow passenger. "Not one of them looked at my legs." The four, when pressed, declare that they are going to sell vacuum cleaners in Kenya ("Hut to hut?" somebody asks), but actually they are off to swing a big uranium swindle. Stranded at a small Italian port while their steamer makes repairs, the six fall in with a discreetly bogus...
From the days of the dime novel through the era of soap opera, U.S. romantics have dreamed of inheriting an estate and a title in Great Britain. Early this year the dream came true for 60-year-old Adrian Ivor Dunbar, a handyman from Upper Fairmount, Md. Adrian left England more than 40 years ago, made his way to the U.S. in slow stages via Australia and Canada, married a comely widow, fathered two sons (both now in the U.S. Army) and in 1939 became a U.S. citizen. Last January, at the deaths of two cousins whom he had never...
Poets Archibald MacLeish, Richard Eberhart, and Richard Wilbur will read form their own works, while Thomas verse will be read by Ivor A. Richards, University Professor. Poetess Marianne Moore may also read...
...some weeks a kindred argument has been raging in the pages of Britain's London Observer. "Great men," wrote Critic Ivor Brown, firing a blanket salvo at all Joycean obscurantists, "are not so silly as to make a practice of wasting their words." Philip Toynbee, the historian's son, rushed to the defense of obscurantism with some obscuration of his own. "To ask why James Joyce didn't write Ulysses less obscurely is a non-question," he declaimed. "It is equivalent to asking why a tree isn't a rock or why a motorcar...