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...author is Welsh Dramatist Alun Owen, best known in the States as scenarist of the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night. His males of the species are Paul Scofield, Michael Caine and Sean Connery-each, in his own way, a predator starring in his own segment of the triple bill. Their prey, and the source of the drama's continuity, is Anna Calder-Marshall, an actress formidable enough at 21 to hold the stage opposite such intimidating costars. Sir Laurence Olivier is the narrator-host, providing bridges between the parts of Owen's "modern morality...
...horror was too great to catch and hold with words, but a Welsh poet named Jeuan Gethin set down some measure of it: "We see death coming into our midst like black smoke, a plague which cuts off the young, a rootless phantom which has no mercy for fair countenance . . . It is seething, terrible, wherever it may come, a head that gives pain and causes a loud cry, a burden carried under the arms, a painful angry knob . . . " The phantom he described was bubonic plague, the Black Death that reached Sicily from the East in 1347 and within three years...
...intention of letting Jackie get behind the wheel. The young man did not much care; he was too busy pursuing his first love-trap shooting. "I put more effort into it than I put now into my racing," he recalls. Between 1957 and 1962 he won the Irish, Welsh, English and British champion ships and was named as a substitute to the British Olympic trap team. Finally persuaded to race at Charterhall, where Clark had made his start several years earlier, Stewart finished third. To fool his mother, he says, "I snuck out to race under the nom de plume...
Such minor indignities paled once the ceremony was underway. It began with a procession, almost two hours long, of soldiers in their dressiest uniforms, bards dressed in swirling blue-and-green togas, Welsh politicians in robes of office and British officials, including Prime Minister Harold Wilson, KEYSTONE in morning clothes. The royal family itself was rather subdued. Queen Elizabeth, carrying an Edwardian parasol, was done up in pale gold. Prince Philip wore the dark blue, braided uniform of a field marshal. Prince Charles, who waited in the Chamberlain tower until formally summoned by his mother, wore the No. 1 blues...
...Welsh-born Pop Singer Jones is the hottest entertainer in the U.S. Six of his nine LPs are on the Billboard chart, and the latest four have won gold records in the past two months. His weekly TV show on ABC is clobbering the competition as a summer rerun. For his two-week engagement at Manhattan's Copacabana in May, the lines began forming as early as 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The Flamingo paid him $280,000 for four weeks, and he paid them back by selling out every concert...