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Married. Sue Lyon, 17, cinema's Lolita-in-the-flesh; and Hampton Lamsden Fancher III, 25, her constant friend on the Iguana set in Puerto Vallarta; he for the second time; in West Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 3, 1964 | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

Minor devil is James Arthur Currigan Luckypenny, middle-aged accountant in a big London munitions firm, bored by office routine, crazy for money and the world's fleshpots. Big devil is Munitions Tycoon Cornelius Lamsden, fiendish rhapsodizer on the worthlessness of mankind and the profit and beauty in killing with Lamsden munitions, who sends Luckypenny to Italy on a confidential mission, makes him his righthand man. By the time the double-crossing complications of the plot have lured Luckypenny to his end, Author Marshall's sermon has long since turned silly, a farce which means to be horrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sermon Thriller | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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