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...Promoter. A sprightly, British-made spoof, with Alec Guinness playing a droll fellow who gets ahead in the world through sheer brass (TIME...
...Promoter. A sprightly, British-made spoof, with Alec Guinness playing a droll fellow who gets ahead in the world through sheer brass (TIME...
...Promoter. A sprightly British-made spoof, with Alec Guinness playing a droll fellow who gets ahead in the world through sheer brass (TIME...
...Plot. The story began last spring, when two undergraduates, A. R. ("Tony") Thompson and David R. Jones, decided that Oxford needed a bang-up spoof. It had not really had one since after World War I, when an undergraduate posed as "the eminent Dr. Emil Busch" of Frankfurt and lectured on psychoanalysis. Thompson and Jones started their 1952 campaign by capturing the Heretics Club. They first joined as members, then worked their way up to positions as chairman and organizing secretary. Without telling their 120 fellow Heretics what they were up to, they made up a list of guest speakers...
...Promoter. A sprightly, British-made spoof, with Alec Guinness playing a droll fellow who gets ahead in the world through sheer brass (TIME...