Word: prim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FELLOW DEVILS, by L. P. Hartley (413 pp.; British Book Centre; $3.95), introduces wealthy, prim and Protestant Margaret Pennefather, who hesitates when glamorous Colum Maclnnes proposes marriage. Not only is he a Roman Catholic but his origins are vague; though he has gone to an approved public school, Nick Burden and other classmates think him rather a bounder. Worse, Colum is a film star who looks like Marlon Brando and plays gangsters and crooks...
...even King himself has had time to add up all the statistics of his new domain. With a women-and-children-first editorial policy. Amalgamated peddles everything from Baby's Own Annual to Love Story Library, puts out 29 weeklies, e.g., prim, prosperous Woman's Weekly (circ. 1,615, 778), and nine monthlies. Like the Mirror-Pictorial, Amalgamated has its assorted paper mills and TV stations. King already had Britain's strongest newspaper chain anchored firmly by London's raucous Daily Mirror (circ. 4,526,453) and the equally raucous Sunday Pictorial (circ...
...Andreievich Zhivago's mother who is being buried. His millionaire father has committed suicide, and Yurii is being brought up as a ward of the well-to-do Gromeko family in a gracious world of chamber-music concerts, fancy-dress balls and lofty ideals. His teen-age partner, prim and proper Antonina (Tonia) Gromeko, is destined to be his bride...
...days later his mistress-and the mother of his daughter -killed herself; the child was raised by her paternal grandmother and aunt, who always spoke in reverent tones of "your poor father." Jeanne Modigliani grew up to be an art scholar, and now she has done a prim but thorough job of sorting out her father's miserable binge of a life...
...scene. The explanation is the movie proper. It involves the characters in a voyage on a terrifically dilapidated steamer, a ride in a car with a built-in champagne bucket, and a tangle with a band of surly Arabs whose chief is lovesick over photographs of Rita Hayworth. A prim young Englishman's wife (Jennifer Jones) is snowed by the inscrutable Bogart, and Bogie's wife (Lollobrigida) is similarly attracted to the Britisher. The swindle plan nears success a dozen times, but falls apart each time. At the end the same shot of the square appears, and the film closes...