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Lest the picture of egocentric, overblown disk jockeys sketched in TIME [June 8] be thought typical by sponsors, neighbors and the Internal Revenue bureau, it should be categorically stated that most of us are (relatively) sober, mildly hard-working types, quite outside the pale of the play-for-payola crown...
Broken Journey. John Calvin was 27 and a thoroughly skilled philosopher-theologian on the July day in 1536 when he first arrived in Geneva-a tired, thin young man of middle height with a pale, finely chiseled face, a long nose and a pointed beard. On his way from Paris to Strasbourg, where he planned to settle down and study, he was detoured through Geneva by military operations, intended to stay in the city only overnight. But a red-bearded Protestant named William Farel, who was having his troubles advancing the Reformation in Geneva, had heard of the brilliant Frenchman...
Checking out of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center after a lung-cancer operation (TIME, May n), TV-Radio Entertainer Arthur Godfrey, 55, met the press in the most harrowing interview of his life. Pale and shaky, he first tried to carry it off bravely: "Just like I told you when I came in, I feel fine." Though he soon gave way to tears, he still managed to keep his old red head in describing his bout with the malignant growth in his chest. "That damnable" tumor had even adhered to the aorta, great artery from the heart. Sobbing...
...nothing of British wives-that Terry seems to have lost the loyalty of neither. One night last week, with five MPs guarding the doors and bobbies examining all fans for concealed tomatoes and eggs, Terry Dene appeared before a packed movie house in Derby. Dressed in a long, pale jacket and skin-tight pants, he began his hip-flinging comeback with Just One More Chance. There were hoots from angry men ("Get back in the army"), but the whoops from the ecstatic girls drowned them...
...fact, The Diary of Anne Frank far transcends most Hollywood movies. Only in comparison with its distinguished progenitors does it look pale...