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...Brett, rejected the plea. "That's the stuff of novels," he told an associate. But when Brett had trouble communicating with Bianchi, tie called in a team of psychologists and psychiatrists. One of them, Watkins, hypnotized Bianchi and discovered the second personality. Watkins told TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer that while hypnotized, Bianchi identified ten of the 13 Hillside victims and admitted killing them. In subsequent sessions with Watkins, Bianchi's second personality merged without hypnosis. Says Watkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Murderous Personality | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...right hands, English is a precision instrument. And, like all such devices, it is alternately blunted and sharpened by its users. In 1978, many nicks and abrasions came from Washington. Ernest Boyer, U.S. Commissioner of Education, admitted that he had been faking it: he actually pretended to understand memos. The confession was prompted by logorrhea in his own department: "This office's activities during the year were primarily continuing their primary functions of education of the people to acquaint them of their needs, problems and alternate problem solutions, in order that they can make wise decisions in planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The State of the Language, 1978 | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Working in the old Spanish Southwest, TIME'S Edward Boyer needed five weeks to complete his interviews. Says Boyer: "Like the immigrant Europeans, the Hispanics have had to endure every humiliation. But many have also experienced the joy of being able to get a job, put food on the table and get an education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 16, 1978 | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Charles Boyer, 78, debonair, French-born Hollywood star of the '30s and '40s; of an apparent heart attack suffered two days after his wife of 36 years had died; in Phoenix. Endowed with a voice that women found deeply sensual, Boyer was probably best known for the invitation credited to him (but never uttered) in Algiers: "Come weez me to ze Casbah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 4, 1978 | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...more difficult now for those of us who watch the field to decide what we should cover. We have to be a lot more limber, and continually re-examine the news." This week's assessment of the Mormon Church, on which Ostling worked with Correspondent Edward J. Boyer and Reporter-Researcher Sara Medina, reaffirms TIME's longstanding commitment to do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 7, 1978 | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

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