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...Lavender Hill Mob. A sprightly British spoof with Alec Guinness stealing the show as a prim bank employee who absconds with $1,000,000 (TIME...
...Forester's fantastic novel, The African Queen, would have its readers believe that an old reprobate and a prim church organist can shoot a thousand miles of river rapids in a motorized scow and blow up a 100-ton gunboat. Director John Huston and stars Hepburn and Bogart obviously didn't think so. In their African Queen, they played thrills for thrills, and the rest for laughs. The result is unusual, half-exciting, half-amusing, and always entertaining...
...Lavender Hill Mob. A sprightly British spoof with Alec Guinness stealing the show as a prim bank employee who absconds with $1,000,000 (TIME...
...Prim Reputation. Why has Harvard's Divinity School lagged behind? Part of the answer is that, although avowedly nondenominational, it has long been known chiefly as a training, ground for Unitarian clergy. This gave Harvardmen of other denominations little incentive for supporting the school. Another reason is sheer neglect. While Harvard graduates talked proudly of their law school, or their undergraduate philosophy courses, the Divinity School, its endowment steadily falling behind, was of interest only to a small group of alumni who admired its prim, scholarly reputation...
Last year Herr Schacht, little the worse for wear and ever on the lookout for money, journeyed to Indonesia. The newborn island republic was hoping for an economic wizard to reinvigorate its lagging export trade and sickly home economy. Schacht and his prim wife put up at the rambling Hotel des Indes in hot, grubby Jakarta (with the government paying all his expenses, about $20,000). For three months he labored...