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ACCORDING TO YOUR CHART ON THE longevity of marriages of celebrity couples [Chronicles, April 10], Catherine Howard and Henry VIII were married only 18 days. However, they were actually married for almost 18 months-from July 1540 until her execution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1995 | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

...TAYLOR WAS WED TO HOTELIER Conrad N. Hilton for eight months, as your chart indicated, then how come that wasn't brought out back in 1951 during her well-publicized divorce from Conrad's son C. Nicholson (Nicky) Hilton Jr.? Could this explain why Hilton Sr. titled his 1957 memoir Be My Guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1995 | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

...FRONT HALL OF THE DRISCOLL elementary school in Brookline, Massachusetts, a large chart displays the names of families that have contributed to a $30,000 fund-raising drive. Though the campaign has stirred controversy in this middle-class community, the participating parents are unapologetic. As they see it, their kids need classroom computers; the public school has no budget for such amenities. So parents are digging into their own pockets to purchase 26 Apple computers by this fall. True, the Driscoll students will then have an advantage over those who attend Brookline's seven other primary schools. But, says Deborah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEYOND BAKE SALES | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

REVIEWING YOUR CHART "CATALOG OF Terror,'' showing weapons that terrorists could use, I concluded that toxic biological and chemical materials, threatening instant injury and death, pose a far greater risk than radioactive materials. The latter are more difficult to obtain and deliver to a population in a dose strong enough to cause significant injury. If people had more accurate information about the relatively small risk from nuclear radiation, there would be less fear of it, and radiological materials could be removed from your catalog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1995 | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

Before the electronic system, checkers were all but forced to learn students' names so that they could check them off a huge chart as the students approached...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: House Masters Criticize Dining Hall ID Readers | 3/21/1995 | See Source »

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