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Word: roborough (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alec had no histrionic forebears and no early encouragement. But "Somehow," he says, "I always knew I wanted to be an actor." Funds in the Guinness family (no kin to the stout fellas from Ireland) being tight, when Alec finished Roborough School in the bottomless '30s, he took a ?2-a-week apprenticeship in a London advertising agency. He studied acting at nights and (in the finest tradition of the theater) lived in a garret for a year, mostly on borrowed jam sandwiches and card board soles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Alec's Way | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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