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...balcony and peer at a flock of wild geese flying overhead, astride one of which is a ten-year-old boy, Nils. Most of the scene was shot from a hovering helicopter and two time-consuming retakes were needed. Patiently doing his bit: good old (79) King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden. ∙ ∙ ∙ The cornerstone for the new Wigan Girls High School was all inscribed: "Laid by the Rt. Hon. Hugh Gaitskell, A.D. 1962." But just a few hours before the Opposition Labor Party leader was to come up from London to do the honors, he learned that...
French aristocrats, such as Prince Michel de Bourbon de Panne and Comte Jean de Beaumont, father of one of the International Set's standout beauties, Vi-comtesse Jacqueline de Ribes, set the pace for French elegance. One of the biggest wigs among the bourgeois is Paul-Louis Weiller, who has some 15 houses, which he very generously lends...
...while the plotting is tautly controlled, Shakespeare at the same time gives himself completely free rein in diction, so that the characters indulge themselves in pouring out poetry at great length and turning an etat d'ame into a cosmic phenomenon. Like King John and two parts of Henry VI, Richard II has no prose; and it contains more rhymes than any plays in the canon except Love's Labour's Lost and Midsummer Night's Dream. As a whole, the play is vastly superior to, say, Romeo and Juliet, written at the same time...
Died. The Right Rev. Eric Knightley Chetwode Hamilton, 71, Dean of Windsor since 1944 and as such, chaplain to the first laymen of the Anglican Church, the late King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II; of a heart attack; in Windsor, England...
...ACADEMIE FRANÇAISE. "As I see it now, I wouldn't want to belong. I think the last crop they let in is just not up to standard. There are others on the outside worth more than many on the inside-André Breton, Paulhan, Lévi-Strauss, Sartre if he weren't such an idiot, such a strange, bizarre monster...