Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flym is short, with dark features and squinting eyes. Because English is a second language, he speaks it slowly and dis-tinc-t-ly, a little like Peter Lorre. The overall--mistaken--impression one receives is of a tough, devious, plotting man. Some Mafia mouthpiece maybe, or a loanshark. Perhaps to counteract this, he likes to play the part of the lawyer--wearing grey suits and white shirts, and constantly putting his arm on people's shoulders. When King Collins first met Flym after his arrest--he had talked to him on the phone the day before and Flym...
...Peter Principle, Peter and Hull...
HADRIAN VII. Alec McCowen gives a masterly performance in Peter Luke's play as the English eccentric Frederick William Rolfe, a rejected candidate for the priesthood who imagines himself elected Pope...
...earmarks of a swinging trip for Beatle John Lennon and his bride, Yoko Ono: a cruise to the U.S. on the Queen Elizabeth 2 in the company of such other swinging junketeers as Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. But there was a serious bureaucratic hitch. John had been busted last year for possession of marijuana, a crime which invalidated his U.S. visa. John battled with U.S. embassy officials in London right up to the last minute, but to no avail. Sellers and Starr had to sail without...
...vying for honors as "most meritorious performance by a Commonwealth citizen." For all of them, the hardest part was not the flying but getting to and from the check-in stations atop the Empire State Building in New York and the General Post Office in London. Royal Navy Pilot Peter Goddard, who won $14,400 for the fastest performance (with a time of 5 hr. 11 min. 22 sec.), confessed that things went so smoothly in his F-4K Phantom jet that he got bored and started reading...