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What Britain has, in fact, is the sorriest secret agent who ever peered through a potted palm. Operation Bandylegs is conceived and carried out by Stanley Farquhar (Lionel Jeffries), an insuperably respectable old bureaucrock with a brain about as subtle as a Mickey Mouse watch, less hair on his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Case of the Bugged Bulldog | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

The Secret of My Success. "Believe in people, have faith in mankind, and never search for evil," says James Booth. That is his secret, drilled into him by the monstrous little eccentric he calls Mother (Amy Dolby). Booth plays a bungling British constable who sees all women as embodiments of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Playing the Palace | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

Harvard's 18 clubs and six fraternities signed an agreement not to recruit any undergraduate before the fourth Monday of his Sophomore year, in order "to preserve the unity of the freshman class." J.T.L. Jeffries '15 presided over the Union Forum on the question: "Resolved, that beer shall not be...

Author: By Ann Peck, | Title: War Clouds Hung Over Class of '15; Athletes Scored Despite 'Indifference' | 6/15/1965 | See Source »

Divorced. Dick Haymes, 47, World War II vintage crooner who made more than $4,000,000 but declared himself bankrupt in 1960 after dividing it between Uncle Sam, his agents and his first four wives (No. 4: Rita Hay worth); by Fran Jeffries, 25, nightclub singer and sometime actress; on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 22, 1965 | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

Missing Messenger. Pernicious anemia has remained a mysterious disease despite the finding that it can be controlled (though not cured), first by liver extracts and now by vitamin B12. Cornell University's Dr. Graham Jeffries began by studying the inflammation of the stomach lining that precedes pernicious anemia. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immunology: How Man Becomes Allergic To Parts of Himself | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

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