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...life like an animated family album. Professor Serebryakov (Thayer David), an aged pedant with a book-lined skull, one of the eternal fourth-raters of the life of the mind. His second wife Helena (Elizabeth Owens), a pampered young tigress on a sick old husband's fretful leash. Dr. Astrov (Winston May), pickled in vodka and suffocating in a town that the god of civilization forgot. Uncle Vanya (Sterling Jensen), who has turned his life into bread for the professor and been bitterly cheated of even the crumbs. Sonya, a flower of a girl, blooming without...
Last week Spaniards watching television coverage of the prince's first state visit to the U.S. (there were three previous unofficial tours) got a somewhat different picture of their future king. Away from Franco's tight leash, the handsome Borbón, accompanied by his pretty, Greek-born wife Princess Sophia, impressed official Washington as conscientious and thoroughly charming. Officially, the aim of the trip was to return President Nixon's October visit to Madrid. The real motive was to refurbish Spain's tarnished image in the wake of the Burgos trials. Sending Franco himself certainly...
After Bobby had finished a huge anthology of Western literature, someone asked what he had got out of it. As always, his answer was unpredictable: "I liked the poet . . . the delicate Parisian one, Gérard de Nerval. He walked his lobster on a leash. People in the street said: 'What's your lobster doing out here on a leash?' Nerval said: 'He doesn't bark and he knows the secrets of the deep.'" Bobby's special affinity, however, was for the Greek poets and dramatists, particularly Aeschylus, the father of tragedy...
...wanted no intimate relationship with the dog and it was strange how perfectly respectable men and women could walk dogs and think nothing of what they were involved in . . ." Then, as an added literary fillip, follows the admission, "Living demanded restraint and a constant tugging back at the leash, you never gave in, never let the dog free...
Died. Colonel Roscoe Turner, 74, early speed flyer and Hollywood stunt man; of bone cancer; in Indianapolis. Turner cut an unforgettable figure striding around town in scarlet helmet, cobalt blue tunic and fawn cavalry pants, with his pet lion Gilmore tugging on a leash. Turner's air stunts were no less electrifying; he performed strut-wrenching maneuvers in such films as Hell's Angels and Flight at Midnight, was a champion at the hair-raising sport of low-level pylon racing at speeds of up to 300 m.p.h., and in 1929 set a Los Angeles-to-New York...