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...still in the thinking stage, however, he sits in an armchair, his pipe rack beside him, and a dog or cat on his lap. Before arriving at his usual labyrinthine mystery-style plot-he is "awfully keen" on Agatha Christie and Rex Stout-he jots down something like 400 pages of notes. "I do like a book with an elaborate plot," he says. Old age? Piffle! "As long as I'm in a chair thinking, I seem to be as young as ever. It's only when I do a three-or four-mile walk that I find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wodehouse Aeternus | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

Inspecting the countryside is, after all, one of the more pleasing rewards of van living. But few wanderers have refined the art as well as a 39-year-old known only as Rex, who spent the past 15 years roving the U.S. aboard a motorcycle. He has now decided to settle down, and to help in the search for a permanent spot, he has outfitted a van in which he parks his cycle. "My van," he explains, "is like a command module that I use to orbit the big cities. Then I dip in and out of the city, inspecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Making the Van Go | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

...Married. Rex Harrison, 63, archetypical British sophisticate of stage and screen; and Elizabeth Harris, 35, former wife of Actor Richard Harris and daughter of Labor Peer Lord Ogmore; she for the second time, he for the fifth; in Centre Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 6, 1971 | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

ADVERTISING Animal Crackers In the film Doctor Dolittle, Rex Harrison warbled about how nice it would be to talk to the animals, chat with the cheetahs or have a hippopotamus to tea. The doctor would probably be overjoyed leafing through the U.S. press lately. Peering out of countless ads are all kinds of animal pitchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Animal Crackers | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

...Commandant Klein as much as the dread that they might die screaming." It is also Klein's fancy to have Adam act like a pet dog, making him crawl around his parlor on all fours and compete with his teeth for bones tossed to Klein's dog Rex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rags and Bones | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

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