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...life Stephen Ward had been surrounded by people, a few of them, perhaps, his friends. In death last week he attracted only curiosity seekers, several hundred strong. Nine days after swallowing a massive overdose of Nembutal, Stephen Ward-liar, drug user, pornographer, libertine and convicted pimp-was cremated in the London suburb of Mortlake. Though his solicitor had asked that no flowers be sent, there was a wreath of two hundred roses from, among others, Playwrights John Osborne and Arnold Wesker, Critic Kenneth Tynan, Novelists Angus Wilson and Alan Sillitoe, Jazzman Acker Bilk (who later withdrew his name). With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: A Moral Post-Mortem | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...hands. Ward said he even doubted that Christine had slept with Soviet Naval Attache Evgeny Ivanov. "Like a lot of people," purred Ward, "she tells a story often enough and comes to believe it and does tell lies." In any case, he insisted, it was "inconceivable" that he would pimp for his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Dial S for Squalor | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...Prince Philip, Mandy, and Canada's ex-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, was a near sellout, raised an astonishing $25,000 for Ward's defense. This week a sober-looking jury of eleven mostly middle-aged men and one woman will decide whether talented Stephen Ward is a pimp and a procurer or just a jolly bohemian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Dial S for Squalor | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

Harry has deserted his girl Jeanie after arranging an abortion for her; he has become the pimp-lover of a whore; and now he is choking and robbing a blind beggar. "God will punish you!" cries the beggar. "God, huh?" says Harry. "Ask God to give you a new pair of eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Tropic of Corn | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

...perfect foil for the bumbling Lemmon. With a face that can twinkle like a terrier's or crumple into bloodhoundish gloom at the first unkind word, Jack makes the most (once he's fired as a cop) of being Shirley's mec-the only pimp in Paris with the principles of an eagle scout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Just Lucky, I Guess | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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