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False Teeth. On the hustings. Sir Roy ("Royboy" to his jovial white audiences) is a shouting, sweating but engaging demagogue, his inevitable red suspenders maintaining a tenuous hold on his tentlike trousers. When his speech grows indistinct, he merrily apologizes for his badly fitting false teeth. He accuses Britain of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central Africa: Royboy | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Where It Counted. But she also stayed up all night. A friend called from Hollywood to say he would call her again if she won. Two and a half hours went by. "Someone else got the award, and no one has the courage to call me," wailed Sophia, lighting up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Sent for One | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

At This Very Moment (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Special, with Burt Lancaster, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Belafonte, Bobby Darin, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jimmy Durante, Connie Francis, Greer Garson, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Bob Hope, Lena Home, the Kingston Trio, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, Jack Paar, Jane Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Dinah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 30, 1962 | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Fallen, Arch. Deftly and with good humor, the author describes four representative adventures; they show "Isherwood" through the years discarding one pose after another, like a man trying on dressing gowns. At 23, the hero is a rather insensitive Sensitive Young Author. Invited to visit a "cousin" named Lancaster who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dilettante of the Depths | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

In London's splendid Lancaster House,* where constitutional conferences compete with a baroque painting of Venus and the Graces, sat three graces from Africa, attired in tribal costumes of lion and monkey skins. Together with 62 other delegates from Kenya and ten British officials, the chiefs were attending what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: Last-Chance Conference | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

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