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...DIED. ALBERT SCHOEPPER, 83, conductor who kept the Marine Band--the President's Own--in line and on key; in Alexandria, Va. Colonel Schoepper also played the diplomat at White House concerts: he once continued gamely when Winston Churchill burst into song to accompany the band...
CREMATION NATION Designer Gianni Versace joined Janis Joplin, Albert Einstein and John Lennon by being cremated upon death. Forty years ago, fewer than 4% of Americans chose cremation, but in 1995 21% did. That figure is expected to rise to 40% by 2010. California and Florida lead the U.S. in number of cremations. People who pick cremation see it as simpler and less expensive than a burial--and it certainly consumes less space. The average cremated remains weigh about 6 1/2 lbs. and take up about 200 cu. in., the volume of a small shoe...
This might be a Gaslight-style melodrama. Mrs. Brown, though, is a true story, about Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) and her long grief after Prince Albert's death. When her intimacy with Brown (Billy Connolly) becomes known, demands to abolish the monarchy ring through Parliament, forcing Prime Minister Disraeli (Antony Sher) to call on Brown. Her Majesty must be coaxed out of hibernation and back to her people...
Former provost Albert Carnesale left two weeks ago to become the new chancellor of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Now graduate students there are worried they might get another Harvard professor, fromer professor of government Douglas A. Hibbs Jr., who resigned from his tenured post at Harvard in Feb. 1985 amidst an allegation of sexual harassment by a student...
...MOVIES . . . MRS. BROWN: 'Mrs. Brown' is the true story how of Queen Victoria (Judi Dench), locked in grief after Prince Albert's death, has her death-in-life is changed by a humble horseman named John Brown. He speaks boldly to her and rudely to her children. He takes her on long walks, gives her counsel; most important, he makes her laugh. "Nicely, the movie lets viewers decide whether Brown is a devoted servant or a devious bully and whether the Queen?s long bereavement is partly stubbornness masquerading as principle," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "It also provides...