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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campus presumably similar to Montana State College, where Fiedler used to teach English, he gathers a handful of Jewish faculty members who have become more American than ham on rye and throws the tragic mysteries of Yom Kippur at them. They don talliths (prayer shawls) over their tweeds and attend the services of Louis Himmelfarb, dying unassimilated of cancer in a Catholic hospital. The old Jew scandalizes their skeptical liberalism by insisting on removal to the bathroom of a crucifix that hangs on the wall. Later, a man who had refused to make one of the minyan (sacramental quorum) jeeringly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three-Card Trick | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...order to take her picture, Luci's capers never became a public problem. Nellie Grant's flirtations were so well noted that her mother packed her off to Europe at 16-only to have Nellie return with a dandified English worshiper in tow. Alice Roosevelt (who will attend this week's wedding) scandalized Washington 60 years ago by smoking cigarettes in public and riding horseback in breeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Three-Ring Wedding | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...most recent steady boy friend, Luci went to Milwaukee with her Secret Service escort, an outrageous blond wig, and a nom de prom (Amy Nunn) to assure privacy. The escapade was successful on all counts -so much so that she invited Pat to go back to Washington to attend her formal acceptance into the Catholic Church on her 18th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Three-Ring Wedding | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...confirmed, they would both attend the University of Texas, he to study for a master's degree in business administration and she to work on a bachelor's degree "in I don't know what"-and Luci hinted that she might also take courses in typing and shorthand, which her father considers "the two greatest virtues" a woman can have. What would they do for income? "I haven't heard," she said archly, "of a lot of schools that give salaries." Insisting nonetheless that they would support themselves, she confided that her fiance "has pretty much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Three-Ring Wedding | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...concert, first in New York City's free park-concert series, and by dusk something like 90,000 people had spread blankets and set up camp chairs around the park's Sheep Meadow. It was possibly the biggest crowd ever to attend a symphony concert, and it listened enraptured as Beethoven's Eroica and Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps filled the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 5, 1966 | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

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