Word: maclean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directing. Each role is clearly outlined against the character of Lear. Within this fairly rigid framework some of the supporting players were outstanding. David Grimm's Fool didn't whine, mince his steps or sing in falsetto; in short he was masculine, a rarity in the role. Peter MacLean as Kent and Nicholas Kepros as Edgar had to sustain an air of good sense and authority through the play's anarchistic denouement. They did. The scenes during the storm when the disgusted Kent watches Lear, Tom and the Fool dancing madly across the Spingold's tilted stage were striking...
Died. Thomas Bertram Costain, 80, prolific author of bestselling historical novels (The Silver Chalice) and some straight popular histories, who made his career as an editor of Canada's Maclean's magazine and the Saturday Evening Post and as a story scout for 20th Century-Fox until at 55 he decided, "If I was ever going to write, I'd better start right away," produced 20 readable yet scholarly works that have sold some 15 million copies since 1942 and resulted in several movie epics; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Doing the Mekes. Producer of the tattoo* is retired Brigadier Alasdair MacLean of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, who still wears his tartan trews and Glengarry cap, clings to his silver-topped swagger stick ("I'm sort of superstitious about the damned thing"). As reinforcements for his North American campaign, MacLean has added 18 feather-footed British Columbia Highland Lassies (all daughters of Canadian servicemen) and for Manhattan, 57 Fiji islanders, representing more than one-third of the crown colony's present army. Mostly muscular six-footers as tall as their names (like Lance Corporal...
...expected to keep it under his helmet and do his job." With an $84-a-week road allowance and more party invitations than they can shake a dirk at, the troops find that the helmets fit tightly at times. "We have reports of dancing and some roistering," says Brigadier MacLean, but "touch wood," there have been no complaints about the men's behavior to date...
...loyal readers of British spy fiction, it seems almost incredible that the cold-eyed watchdogs of counterintelligence in Whitehall could let H.M.G.'s closest secrets slip into the hands of the enemy. Yet Atom Scientist Klaus Fuchs got away with it, and so did Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess of the Foreign Office, not to mention the more recent indiscretions of Admiralty Clerk, William Vassall...