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...Maurice Oldfield, the late chief of MI6, Britain's supersecret intelligence service, was a scholarly, chubby and unprepossessing bachelor. He enjoyed an impeccable reputation, and was said to be the prototype for Novelist John le Carre's spy master, George Smiley. But unlike Smiley, Oldfield had a dark secret that has posthumously cast a shadow over his career...
High Jump--1. Erin Sugrue, Harvard, 5-ft., 8-in.; 2. Beth Smiley, Brown, 5-ft., 4-in.; 3. Kristen Morwick, Dartmouth...
...undergraduate years played in the Union or at Elsie's for up to 15 hours a week. "It's a god-like game, where a paranoid man is trying to go through rooms and is killing people. Then an 'Auto' comes on the screen, and he's just this smiley face whose only goal in life is to destroy you. It's a really paranoid and alienating game, and I thought it was funny. It appealed to my sense of cynicism. And I've always despised smiley faces," she says...
...encounter several subplots. Bill (Gregor Fisher) is getting married to Annie (Caroline Guthrie). Both are amusingly nervous, which adds to Alan's own doubts about long-term relationships. Younger friend Ken (David McKay) is having difficulties getting a love life started, much less keeping one going. Photo shop owner Smiley just looks on, tending his plants...
Guinness himself seems removed from such mad scenes. Like George Smiley, the most interesting character of his later years, he is more of a reactor than an initiator, an amused but always clear-eyed observer. Part of that ironic aloofness may come from his childhood. His mother lived from hand to mouth, and he never knew who his father was. He was forced to adapt, and he has been doing that ever since, making a brilliant career out of pouring himself into a myriad of molds. He is now a little startled, however, to discover some of his mannerisms...