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Later they went into Lowell's chandeliered dining hall, the one that brings on images of sodden barons and trenchers stoked with legs of mutton. Someone was playing a Bach cello concerto...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Courtyard Festivals Are for Those Who Have "Neither Youth Nor Age" | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...hardly looks like the stuff of legend: plump and puckish, a shy grin on his broad leg-of-mutton face, a shoulder holster sagging from the armpit of his sweat-blotched, green T shirt, a drinker of nothing more stimulating than cream soda. Yet Senior Chief Petty Officer Bernard G. Feddersen, 35, of the Seabees, is renowned from Danang to the Delta as the sharpest cumshaw artist in all Southeast Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: King of Cumshaw | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

With the Q4, Cunard hopes to dump its old-tub, cold-mutton reputation and start filling as many cabins as the Italian and French lines fill on their slick new vessels. The Q4 will be commissioned in 1968, but, says Sir Basil, "Cunard line's passenger service must be paying its own way by that time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipping: Queens Looking for the Sun | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...magnate cum laude, Grant herein relinquishes his customary Romeo role to play Eros by proxy, and no man could play it better. Instead of making passes at his luscious roommate, Samantha Eggar, he sublets half of his half of her apartment to a lanky Olympic race-walker (Jim Mutton) and starts showing the younger generation how one thing can lead to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olympic Clowning | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...South gothic. Moldering mansions are in short supply Down Under, but White does what he can with "gothic" grass around the Brown house, wormy quince trees, and the house itself, which is a sort of Greek Revival temple done in clapboard. It is amazing what can be done with mutton fat, bad drains, and skeins from bowls of bread and milk to convey the squalor of life and the hatred of it that is proper to fiction of this genre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shaman of Sarsaparilla | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

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