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...previously in trouble with his local Bournemouth Conservative Association for opposing government policy on Suez (TiME, Feb. 2). Admitted a Conservative M.P. last week: "Lolita is the main issue. Suez has been replaced." Said a local politico: "A director of a firm intending to publish this vulgar novel is no fitting representative for good Bournemouth citizens...
...Others acclaimed her "sovereign manipulation of tonal line," the subtle clarity of her rock-solid rhythm, taste and imagination. Wrote one fan: "It seems that the dry, tinkling sounds emanating from this delicate box satisfy an inherent longing for an orderly perfection which has long been lost in our vulgar present day." Last week, as Germany's "Hausfrau at the Harpsichord" continued her triumphant tour, she said wonderingly: "Everyone makes me feel like something of a missionary...
Margaret, at 28, has spirit enough to marry Colum even though it means leaving dear old daddy, who has been so dependent on her. At first, Colum is just wonderful to Margaret, but his friends seem a tacky lot. There is Mrs. Belmore, the rich, vulgar American, and beautiful but unladylike Lauriol, who seems to have certain claims on Colum that Margaret does not care to think about. More unsettling is the fact that Colum rapidly proves himself to be an unmitigated liar and a compulsive thief. One of his pranks causes the death of Mrs. Belmore, a nasty brush...
Wifey's Buddy. Poe was one of those drinkers to whom one jigger was the same as a jug. He enriched Thomas White, the "illiterate, vulgar although well-meaning" editor of the Messenger, but White was forced to record: "Poe has flew the track." Another time he wrote Poe, fearing "that you would again sip the juice," adding the wisdom of a spacious age: "No man is safe who drinks before breakfast." As if drink were not bad enough, Poe almost certainly was a drug addict; more than one of his fictional characters confessed to being "a bonden slave...
...marshal, "there are obvious advantages in being twins. So when we returned, with very little subterfuge on our parts, the doctors got us completely mixed up. I passed in with flying colors on David's eyes, and he on the strength and quality of my-er-more vulgar but nonetheless useful contribution...