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...Repudiation. To reach this moment, she has had to shed more than the memory of her early career. She was born in Vienna before World War II, when the city was still trying to be gay. Her mother, Magda Schneider, was a weepy, waltzy actress who was the Jeanette MacDonald of prewar Austria. Her father, Wolf Albach-Retty, was a celebrated actor, and is still a staple of the Vienna Volkstheater. Now divorced, the couple in those days had a retreat at Berchtesgaden, where Romy (a contraction of Rose-Marie) was raised by grandparents. There she playacted alone before...
...unpopular to sell it to the Africans or to hold together the uneasy coalition of Kenya's deeply antagonistic political parties, Kenyatta's KANU and Ronald Ngala's KADU. To succeed Renison, Duncan Sandys picked a man with a better chance of making delay palatable: Malcolm MacDonald, 61, a famed proconsul who has helped nurse more infant nations through independence than almost any other British official...
...MacDonald, Britain's first socialist Prime Minister, "Mac" MacDonald as Governor General in Malaya spurred the far-reaching social and economic reforms that helped turn the tide there against the Communists. Later he served as Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, last year was handed the delicate task of presiding (with a Soviet cochairman) over the protracted negotiations that led to the coalition government in Laos. A breezily informal administrator, MacDonald has frequently horrified pukka sahibs by allowing his photograph to be taken while walking hand in hand with bare-breasted native beauties. Among East-of-Suez Blimps, he earned...
...biggest in any sense, except perhaps in the youth of our staff, and we have no 'firsts' to talk about yet," says Dr. Green. "But we expect to have a number of firsts before too long." He well may. Britain's famed Neurologist Macdonald Critchley, accustomed to working on pinched budgets, helped to dedicate the Barrow equipment and said, with understandable envy: "This is a dream institute...
...ghost, he answered, "I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." But if the tour aroused Johnson's antic side, it aroused his antiquarian side even more. On the islands - Raasay and Skye and Mull - there were still feudal forms of life, clans and chieftains, Macdonalds and MacLeods and Macleans. There were ruins and grottoes, homely customs, and high ritualized hospitality. Johnson per ambulated, gazed and pontificated. He could also be playful as well as sententious. When a young bride sat on his knee and hugged and kissed him, the 64-year-old lexicographer said...