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...well-heeled parents, it's easy to justify the indulgence. Sheila Allen was worried that her daughter Rebecca would face too much stress at Princeton University, where the 18year-old will be balancing academics with a spot on the ice-hockey team. So Sheila pushed for a new Pier 1 sofa and prodded her daughter into other purchases ranging from a flat-screen TV to a mini-fridge-freezer to a papasan chair. "She needs to be able to relax," says Sheila. To that end, Rebecca will also have new video-game accessories plus her roommate's karaoke machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dressing Up The Dorms | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...have signed his name-maybe he used a cross -a daring 19th century French forger sold spurious signatures of Mary Magdalene, Pontius Pilate and Lazarus (after his resurrection). Some of the great forgeries have acquired genuine value, notably a play purported to be by Shakespeare that was "discovered" by 18year-old William Henry Ireland in 1795 and was actually produced in London by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (the first-night audience howled it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Signed in Gold | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...Massadors Division of the Sportsmen, who operate out of the Lower East Side when they are not mugging for the cameras, are particularly proud of 18year-old Richard Velez, who got to Hollywood with Sally's help, made $2,100 in six weeks, came home with a contract, and rejoined the ranks on the West Side Story set wearing a Sunset Strip sports jacket, slacks (the boys call them "vines") and wrap-around sunglasses ("shades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOVIES: Gang Girl | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

Cinemactor Freddie Bartholomew, 18year-old ex-child star, was sworn into the Army Air Forces in Los Angeles as a ground crewman. British-born, he took out his first U.S. citizenship papers last March, can automatically become a citizen after three months in the service. Last week, looking ahead, he figured the war "might be over in time for me to do some more acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 25, 1943 | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

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