Word: catherinee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since Harper's Editor Lewis Lapham, 46, announced his resignation last month, the troubled 131-year-old monthly (circ: 336,000) has been engaged in an intense head-hunting expedition. Last week the search committee, headed by Rutgers English Professor Richard Poirier, chose Lapham's replacement: Michael...
By the time the plague had run its course 259 of the 350 villagers had died. One of the last victims was Mompesson's wife Catherine. Assuming he was also destined to die, he wrote a farewell letter: "I thank God, I am content to shake hands with all...
Catherine Hitchcock Prescott, Ariz.
But a fortnight ago there finally was a break in that reluctant agreement by the families to accept the men's wishes. Catherine Quinn decided she could no longer obey such orders. When her son Patrick, 29, was unable to hold down water and fell unconscious, she defied him...
Catherine Quinn's desperate boldness sent a wave of hope through hundreds of families who live in dread of the sudden news that their sons have volunteered to starve. When the name of the latest hunger volunteer, Liam McCloskey, 25, was announced last week, his parents protested to the...