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British Author J.B. (John Boynton) Priestley, 79, who has outlived most of his literary rivals, has just come out with his 99th publication, a book entitled The English, whom many of his admirers think he epitomizes. In London, one of his plays, An Inspector Calls, has been restaged at the Mermaid, and another, Eden End, is slated as a tribute from the National Theater Company in April. Even his native Bradford, which Priestley has written about none too kindly, conferred the freedom of the city on him. As for growing old, Priestley explained what it was like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1973 | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...university" (to which Bok referred this afternoon) does not include the freedom to commit mass murder, the use to which American armed forces have been put in the past decade. The Vietnamese people have forced the American military out of their country, but the air war, now in its 99th consecutive day, continues in neighboring Cambodia. The butchery has not stopped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Burdens of 1973 | 6/14/1973 | See Source »

Although the bombing in Cambodia--now in its 99th consecutive day--may be just as severe, it does not have the same immediate impact. Most students know little about Cambodia yet. Reporting from the country is scanty and shoddy, the outlines of the political dispute are hazy, and the revolutionary Khmer Rouge, to whom many Harvard students would be attracted, are still a shadowy and elusive force...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: The Movement Was Silent But Vietnam Is Winning | 6/14/1973 | See Source »

SATURDAY: Kentucky Derby. The 99th run for the roses at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Only a year younger than your favorite publication. CH.5. 5 p.m. Color. Live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 5/3/1973 | See Source »

...Crimson squad, which puts out Cambridge's only breakfast table daily in its spare time, completed its 99th season undefeated and untied...

Author: By Bo BO Bobozo, | Title: Crimson Defeats Yale Tabloid; Gains 300th Straight Win, 23-2 | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

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