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...about father last week in a serialization of a forthcoming biography. His introduction to Papa was enough to stop Big Ben, bells, cogs and counterweights. Gist of it all: the P.M. was just as active in the boudoir as in Parliament. By Richard Lloyd George's count, his sire had 18 mistresses over almost 50 years, and by them had sired four illegitimate children-Observes the son: by the time Lloyd George got around to marrying at 25, he had already acquired "a slightly scandalous reputation as a philanderer...
...Ribot, the "Horse of the Decade," from Ribot's Italian owners on a five-year lease for $1,350,000. He has already set one mark in racing: he paid the world's record price-$2,000,000-for Swaps, 1955 Kentucky Derby winner, hopes Swaps will sire a champion...
...Brinkley with the complaint that he was a "flat tire," sexually inert. Somehow, Brinkley hit on the idea of implanting a fragment of goat gonad in the old fellow's testicles. He did, and before long the patient had recuperated to the extent that he was able to sire a healthy son-a lad named, appropriately enough, Billy...
...with authority on the attitude of Red China's bosses toward birth control, including their brief experiment with the most unconventional oral contraceptive ever advocated by a 20th century government. In Brazil, Correspondent Jayme Dantas traveled four hours out of Rio de Janeiro to confirm with its proud sire the existence of a single-family population explosion of 36 children...
...Boys on Bicycles, in which the boys were boys, and the wheels were round. "As you grow older," Park said, "it dawns on you that you are yourself-that your job is not to force yourself into a style, but to do what you want." The result was to sire a new and on the whole gentler generation of San Francisco figure painters, most conspicuous of whom is Richard Diebenkorn (TIME color, March 17, 1958). Park, 48, who sold 14 canvases at prices from $500 to $2,000 in a one-man show at Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery last...