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Physically and spiritually depleted, he retired at 26-a heroin addict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Return of Slowhand | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...Delderfield is to the novel what Upstairs, Downstairs is to television. The man is a good read, and for the kind of good-read addict who hates himself the next morning, Delderfield can be justified as literature too. "A modern Trollope, a latter-day Galsworthy!" the critics cry, while his stories slip down as smoothly as soap opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Samplings for the Summer Reader | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...Tour. "As he was obliged by ecclesiastical rules to stop eating at midnight so that he could conduct early morning Mass," Terrail says, "he was in the habit of turning his watch back an hour so that he could have a Sainte Geneviève soufflé." An ardent addict is Ava Gardner, who once called the restaurant at 11 p.m., when all the cooks had gone home, and asked if she could have dinner. "Certainement," said Terrail, who proceeded to cook her a steak. "It was the worst I've ever had," Ava said. The late Winthrop Rockefeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Eiffel Rival | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...explained, "she wouldn't say 'Yes, ma'am.'" Refused permission to go to the bathroom, Almira wet her pants. "See the pig in the pigpen," said the teacher to the class. Treatment like this inevitably had its effect on Almira (whose mother was a drug addict and whose father was in jail for a murder the child had witnessed). She became one of the school's infamous "bad kids," outwardly "as appealing as a belligerent black porcupine." But when Almira was in the eighth grade, Lois Stalvey finally won her trust; Almira asked her help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Making Bad Kids | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...Mans with a few expensive, finely tuned egos successfully negotiating the twists and turns of the three-hour course while a satisfying number of the other entrants crash. There was nothing this year to equal the spectacular flame-out that Marlon Brando arranged in 1973, but a dedicated Oscar addict could pass out a few prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Big Show, 1974 | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

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