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HEADS, by Edward Stewart. Ivy League sacred cows are milked, and human parts are strewn about in unlikely places by ax murderers in a cheerfully gruesome novel by the author of Orpheus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 4, 1969 | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

HEADS, by Edward Stewart. Ivy League sacred cows are milked, and human parts are strewn about in unlikely places by ax murderers in a cheerfully gruesome novel by the author of Orpheus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 21, 1969 | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

HEADS, by Edward Stewart. Ivy League sacred cows are milked, and human parts are strewn about in unlikely places by ax murderers in a cheerfully gruesome novel by the author of Orpheus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 14, 1969 | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...been parked. In the first grave, they found a head wrapped in a plastic bag and a torso, with apparent stab wounds, swathed in cloth. Further searching turned up parts of the three other bodies. It appeared that the girls had been killed before dismemberment. An ax or cleaver had been used for the grotesque operations. All, apparently, were nude at death, and there were teeth marks on the bodies. An autopsy showed that one of the two teenagers' bodies had been buried for eight or nine months, the other as long as a year. One of the Providence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Graves in the Dunes | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

Centered around graduates of venerable Eli College (Oxford, Mass.), the story concerns people who, when they become head of their department or organization, have their heads and other parts of their bodies lopped off by a devious ax murderer-or murderers. On the squash court of New York's Eli Club, Professor Bertram Langsam loses his head and thumb. Ferdinand Fields, an Episcopal rector partial to horror flicks, is decapitated in the men's room of a Long Island railroad train by a Peruvian sun priestess turned tramp. Whittaker Duchamp, bogus play producer, is more fortunate: he only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shortcuts | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

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