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Along with their permits, visitors to the government's fishing lodge get a chance to sample the famed "Trail Blazer Pancakes" turned out by David Ogilvy, 74, the lodge's gaunt, oracular manager. Last week, after "building pancakes by feel" for more than half a century, Dave Ogilvy set down in his own words his pancake "receipt...
...Ambassador is elderly (73), stout (200 Ibs. on a 5 ft. 10½ in. frame), genial-jowled, courtly and oracular in an oldtime way. He is no shaft of lightning in extempore debate. He can bumble well-meaningly as he did during the 1948 Israel crisis, when he urged disputatious Arabs and Jews to get together and "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit." He cannot match India's Sir Benegal Rau in subtlety and sophistication. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb is his superior in verbal riposte. But Austin sallies into U.N.'s polemic fray with...
Died. Arthur Ungar, 64, editor since its founding (1933) of Hollywood's captious, oracular Daily Variety; of a heart attack; in Del Mar, Calif...
...Time to Look Back, by Leslie Greener. A South African novelist finds a Christlike figure among the prisoners in a Japanese P.W. camp, traces his influence on prisoners and guards in a moving, if sometimes oracular story (TIME...
...Time to Look Back, by Leslie Greener. A South African novelist finds a Christlike figure among the prisoners in a Japanese P.W. camp, traces his influence on prisoners and guards in a moving, if sometimes oracular story (TIME...