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...most disliked lead ers in India, but there are several reasons why Nehru values him highly. They are old friends, and have been ever since Menon's 22-year self-exile in Britain. Son of a middle-class law yer, Menon took degrees at the London School of Economics, also became a barrister. In 1935, when Nehru visited England, Menon went all out to build him up as Gandhi's successor. He arranged annual Nehru birthday celebrations, set up speaking engagements in England, got Nehru's first books published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MENON'S WAR | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...Mauldin attacked the military caste system without mercy. "Them buttons wuz shot off when I took this town, sir," growls a slovenly Willie to a spit-and-polish rest-area lieutenant. "One more crack like that," snarls a private to a major, "an' you won't have yer job back after th' war." Inevitably, this kind of enlisted man's license landed Mauldin in trouble. It culminated in a personal confrontation with Lieut. General George S. Patton in Luxembourg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hit It If It's Big | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...there wi' yer bluidy magic lantern," thundered Scotland's late golfing great, Andra Kirkaldy, when a cameraman dared set foot on the sacred Old Course at St. Andrews at the turn of the century. Had Kirkaldy been around St. Andrews last week, he probably would have heaved his clubs into the North Sea. Heavy tractors trundled television cameras, cables and lights all over the course. Cameramen swarmed over roughs and fairways, technicians and officials thronged the greens, and close to 5,000 Scots followed the proceedings with alternating amusement and dismay. For an 18-hole golf match between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bluidy Magic Lantern | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...friend walks in the back. Off to a bar, he spots a little bit of all right (Shirley Anne Field), makes a date for picture night, spends the rest of Sunday fishing and elaborating his philosophy of love: "Marriage costs too much. A lump sum down and yer wages a week for life. Nobody's got to marry 'em to get 'em. Not if they're already married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Saxon Revolt | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...living tabs off him. But a week later the young dog is out of bed again and rolling all over the parlor floor with that pretty little tuffey-apple he met in the bar. Will he marry her? Maybe. Will he stop fighting? "Ever see where not fighting gets yer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Saxon Revolt | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

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