Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

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INTRODUCING THE SENSATIONAL STAR OF BEN-HUR AND THE BEST OF EVERYTHING ■ The London fog of '52 was a killer. It rolled in from the sea, ghostly and poisonous, shrouding the city and choking the weak who breathed it. Thousands died before it blew away. One who almost did was a sick and lonely youth from Belfast, Ireland, named Billy Millar. Shivering one minute and burning the next, Billy huddled in a draf ty hall of a cheap rooming house. He'd come to London to act. Instead, he was bedded with a dangerous flu, flat broke and starving. All he'd had for a week was water. In his delirium, Billy dreamed : He was standing over a deep, deep well. Inside it were all the emotions and feelings of the world. He could reach down at random, lift them up, take them in and give them out. When he dreamed that, Billy Millar didn't care if he ever got well. But, of course, he did. Because today Billy Millar is Stephen (Continued on page 63)