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...confidence. Three days later he got married. "Now I can stand on my own two feet," he says, "and disperse anybody who comes up to me and says, 'You are here because of who you are and not because of your talent.' " He also disperses a shower of eccentricities. He makes his own breakfast, tossing two bananas, three eggs, half a pint of milk and some Bosco into a Waring Blendor. He flies kites. He wears cowboy boots with his tuxedo. He drives a silver 390-h.p. Facel-Vega sports car. "I've had beers in every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Springtime for Henry | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

Frankie in the Shower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

Since Mr. Sinatra's neighbors [Jan. 19] can hear him when he spits, they must also be able to hear him sing in his shower. For that privilege, I would gladly put up with helicopters taking off at all hours of the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

...Violetta in La Traviata, Soprano Dorothy Kirsten, the first American ever to sing with Russia's 110-year-old Tiflis Opera, earned a shower of bouquets, 22 curtain calls and an enraptured chain of escorts all the way back to her hotel. (Ardent Georgians shouted in English: "May I kiss you?") Saving her voice for the remainder of a month-long Soviet tour, Miss Kirsten was later cajoled into a command demonstration of the twist. Said she: "The entire party applauded ecstatically. American culture has triumphed again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

Starting in May, Charles, whose titles include Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, will take up a regimen that begins daily at 7 a.m. with a cold shower followed by an empty-stomach sprint around the school grounds. Along with Gordonstoun's 400 other boys, among them the scholarship sons of dockers and fishermen, he will chop wood, build pigsties, sail, climb cliffs. The staple food is boiled potatoes at lunch and supper, and the school insists on "N.E.B.M." (no eating between meals). Average Scholar Charles will probably take the classroom work in stride, for Gordonstoun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rugged School for Charlie | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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