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Major William Mandeville Peareth Kincaid Lennox has never bought a work of art in his life; yet he owns one of England's more romantic collections. He inherited more than 90 paintings that hang helter-skelter in ill-lit confusion in the library and the drafty halls of Downton Castle. Ten years ago, the major wired the castle for electricity, and now a TV set sits smack beneath Rembrandt's Flight into Egypt. A caged budgerigar chirps beneath Rembrandt's The Cradle. In addition, there is a Van Dyck ("A lovely one of a galloping horse," says...
...only be a baby sitter, but her appetites lead straight back to the nursery, and her cotton candy dress scarcely hides her wickedness. "I'm not dirty," she coaxes, pulling off her slip. "I'm full of womanly feelings." Then, in a skelter of pillows, the play's moral rings down on her and she dies in an athletic attempt to seduce the hothouse boy she has her eye on. But as played by Nymphet Barbara Harris, she conquers whole audiences night after night, making Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet...
...skinny, asthmatic Charles Ferries, 22, was just another also-ran on the fiercely competitive European ski circuit. A member of the U.S. Alpine ski team since 1960, Ferries had won a couple of races in the U.S., none at all in the Alps, was noted mainly for a helter-skelter skiing style that neatly matched his nickname: "Cyc," for cyclone. But last week Cyc Ferries was the sensation of the 1962 season. He had scored successive slalom victories at Austria's Kitzbühel and Italy's Cortina d'Ampezzo, was a solid favorite to capture...
...must be a square. I just can't get with this popular race suicide, helter-skelter-shelter fad, as pleasurable as it sounds...
...will stay on for a while in the next Administration) tells friends that the Defense Department will soon come to feel a "new discipline" in the development of new strategic weapons systems (there are seven now in development and operation*). Says York: "The desperation is gone-the helter-skelter grabbing for new approaches and variations on new approaches which we have had in the past.'' In a way, the Kennedy Administration is coming in at an opportune time, he believes. "The duplication and false starts we had were kind of necessary. We learned a lot from it, including...