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There have been other shady reports of mysterious happenings. Twelve years ago, a clairvoyant spoke at Massachusetts Hall, Harvard's oldest building, where a ghost purportedly visits each fall to take up the residence of his youth. The speaker also warned students that any photographs taken of her would not...

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Fearsome Phantoms Lurking in the Ivy ... | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

He was not greased, Tabitha stopped smelling like an overgrown cruller, and the six-figure earnings soon became seven. "People think the muse is a literary character," says King, "some cute little pudgy devil who floats around the head of the creative person sprinkling fairy dust. Well, mine's a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Horror | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

But the man who was clairvoyant on the role of nuclear power proved less than visionary in other areas. Behaving like an ordinary bureaucrat, Rickover routinely demanded that a disproportionate share of Navy dollars go to his nuclear ship programs. Some naval analysts also say that Rickover's single- minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hyman George Rickover: 1900-1986: They Broke the Mold | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

ART director Robert Brustein sparked a frenzy of bidding on the last auction lot, when he substituted an afternoon with Reeve on Martha's Vinyard for the original prize--a tennis match with Art Buchwald and Brustein. The bidding immediately went up another $1000 dollars, peaking at $2700. "I went...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Actor Christopher Reeve Auctions Off Valuable Oddities to Benefit the ART | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

A transvestite famous for offering sexual services to prison inmates. A woman who has risked madness, and at least temporarily succumbed to it, by volunteering to abstain from TV for a month. A clairvoyant, a mafioso, a crusader on a hunger strike until people stop hunting birds, a troupe of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Remembering the Lost Steps Ginger & Fred | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

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