Word: ursula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David Niven and Orson Welles, Ursula Andress and Deborah Kerr, William Holden and George Raft, John Huston, Charles Boyer, Joana Pettet, Daliah Lauri, and in furtive appearances, Peter O'Toole and Jean Paul Belmondo, round out Casino Royale's company. Niven takes everything very very seriously, and has made of Sir James a proud, sensitive, prudish, retired spy in anything but the Ian Fleming tradition. He stutters too, at the start, but as if realizing it's not funny, Niven gives up this device a third of the way into the picture. Orson Welles, given one of the most thankless...
...named by Columbus in 1493 in honor of England's St. Ursula, who, according to legend, was slaughtered while defending her virginity against pagans...
Hefner may have run the Marilyn Monroe shots without her consent, but now he has no problem finding big-name actresses eager to appear in the magazine. The album so far includes Carroll Baker, Arlene Dahl, Ursula Andress, Kim Novak, Susan Strasberg, Elsa Martinelli and Susannah York. Nor is there any trouble getting unknown girls to pose; hundreds apply. Sometimes, though, there is a problem in making the copy that goes with them interesting enough. For instance, the latest Miss January, Playboy said, would love to be a nurse. She was "Albert Schweitzer's fairest disciple. She has read each...
...Died. Ursula Hemingway Jepson, 63, wife of a Hawaiian banker whose father committed suicide (1928) in the face of a debilitating illness, but who always denied that her brother, Novelist Ernest Hemingway, had done the same (1961), contending that his gunshot death was accidental because "suicide was against all his convictions and principles"; apparently of an overdose of drugs after writing a despondent note about a long illness; in Honolulu...
Diffuse and emotionally flat despite its expert airborne excitement, The Blue Max sets out to be a caustic essay on honor, ends up posing questions no more timeless and universal than Who will get Ursula? and Who will be the next ace to fell 20 British planes? The only way to help such synthetic melodrama to a climax is to reveal, once more, the unstartling news that the Kaiser's forces are about to lose World...