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Last week, looking wan and carrying a small bundle of personal belongings, Chang, 39. was freed. Humbly he told reporters: "I am sorry for causing all this trouble." With his wife, he took a taxi to a cousin's home (his own luxurious villa had long been rented), then knelt in prayer with his family and a Korean Presbyterian minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Well-Timed Clemency | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

Only Two Can Play. Peter Sellers plays a wan little Welsh librarian who decides he would rather peruse a blonde than a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 27, 1962 | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 13, 1962 | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Barmy in the Back Stacks | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Family Jokes | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

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