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In the twelve years before his death in 1870, Charles Dickens wrote some of his best-loved books (including A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations) and, according to a 1939 biography, Dickens and Daughter, by Gladys Storey, took up with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. Though many critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 21, 1980 | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

Pravda's cautionary tale, headlined "The Factory That Wasn't," was one of the newspaper's occasional exposés of individual wrongdoing designed to explain why Soviet central planners are unable to meet their goals. In the case of the factory that wasn't, Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Potemkin Factory | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

Despite echoing corridors and almost empty classrooms, School Board President Catherine Rohter ordered the schools to remain open; otherwise, the cash-poor system would have been billed for unemployment compensation. But pleas by board of education officials for parent volunteers to help with staffing were mostly unheeded. The few students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cold Shutdown | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Three meter diving: 1. Veronica Ribot (BU), 427.65; 2. Pam Stone (H), 368.05; 3. Adriana Holy (H), 364.30; 4. Catherine Butler (BU), 344.20; 5. Leslie Hutton (NU), 289.90; 6. Becky Wright (NU), 251.40;

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Aquawomen Swamp Terriers, Grab First GBC Crown Ever | 2/7/1980 | See Source »

What kind of people are spending for such things? And why? An immensely wealthy individual-a Getty, a Norton Simon, a Mellon-finds in great art what eluded Alexander of Macedon-a last world to conquer. It is a lust to which overachievers have been notoriously susceptible, from Catherine the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going... Going... Gone! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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