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When Ren? Boissevain is not turning motorists' heads in the bumpy-surfaced car he calls his rockmobile or guiding tourists through the cave beneath his shop, he can usually be found down some South American mine shaft in search of rare crystals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crystal Underground | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...gathered on expeditions to Mexico and Brazil. His obsession has brought its share of trouble. He's had life-threatening encounters with con men in silver mines-one tried to throw him down a shaft, he says. And not long ago, he was robbed. It's little consolation to Boissevain that the burglars evidently mistook his fake diamonds for the real thing. "They mustn't be very smart," he says mournfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crystal Underground | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...unfettered real-life bohemian. With a minimum of stage props and commentary, Actress Stickney has woven an autobiographical chronicle out of Edna Millay's poems and letters, from her youthful dreaming in a Maine seacoast town through her Greenwich Village bohemian days and her married life with Eugen Boissevain to her solitary death at 58, in a hilltop house in the Berkshires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Evening | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

After 1923, when she married a Dutch businessman named Eugen Boissevain, she did not have to worry about money again until the last years of her life, but illnesses of all sorts plagued her: "It's not true that life is one damn thing after another-it's one damn thing over & over-there's the rub-first you get sick-then you get sicker-then you get not quite so sick-then you get hardly sick at all-then you get a little sicker-then you get a lot sicker-then you get not quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mostly a Maine Girl | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

Betty Bagby '52; Marie Beaupre; Marie Boissevain '53; Lorna Briggs '55; Gwen Brigham '53; Ginny Dahr '55; Rusty Flinton '55; Fay Frenning '55; Pricilla High '53; April Hodges '55; Danny Holmgren '55; Gabrielle Iglesias '55; Rachel Mellinger '52; Daphne Merriam '52; Fay Pratt '52; Judy Raff '55; Margot Ravage '55; Sandi Rosman '55; Janet Titus '55; Teddy Train...

Author: By John Forand, | Title: Hair Runs Gamut; Pony to Poodle | 3/26/1952 | See Source »

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