Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only Two Can Play. Peter Sellers plays a wan little Welsh librarian who decides he would rather study a blonde than bury his nose in a book...
...plowing through your novel the other day," the hero murmurs sweetly to an author he detests. "We have an unsigned first edition-they're the rare ones, aren't they?"). But what matters most is Comedian Sellers. He is perfectly hilarious as the lubricious bookworm, the wan don who thinks he is a Don Juan...
...this and other satiric bits ricocheted through a Statler Hilton dining room, John Kennedy's smile seemed wan. Like any President, Kennedy is sensitive to kidding, and at their annual Gridiron Club dinner, Washington newsmen ribbed him, his policies and his family mercilessly. But when the President arose for his own five-minute speech, he showed that he could dish it out as well as take...
...years since he laid acquisitive hands on a wan northern Canadian weekly called the Timmins Press, Toronto-born Roy Herbert Thomson, 67, has collected 93 newspapers, more than anyone else in the world. This year Newspaper Collector Thomson branched out into magazine buying, was just about to close a deal for a big British periodical publishing house, Odhams Press Ltd. (200 magazines, newspapers, trade and technical journals and annual directories), when Press Lord Cecil Harmsworth King beat him to the checkbook (TIME, Feb. 24). Annoyed but undaunted, Thomson sat on his millions, waiting for another chance. Last week it came...
Scream of Fear (Hammer; Columbia). "You must be dead." the stepmother (Ann Todd) murmurs with sinister sympathy as the wan little crippled girl (Susan Strasberg) turns her wheelchair wearily toward bed. Poor child, she hasn't had an easy life: a divorce in the family, a fall from a horse, nine years of physical limitation and nervous debility. Then suddenly her mother's death, and now an anxious new beginning in her father's house. Odd, come to think of it, that her father isn't there to meet her, but then of course business...