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...Essendine, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. emphasizes the childish charm of his old chum Coward. Theatrically, this is a wise decision. The slightest stress on what can only be called the sadomasochistic implications of Essendine's relationships with his clan could easily spoil the evening. It is much better to let the unbitter truthfulness of the writing steal over one later. Excepting Fairbanks and George Pentecost as a comically clumsy young playwright, the cast, which includes Jane Alexander and Ilka Chase, never quite achieves the sense of giddy weightlessness that a Coward comedy should have. Still, the players at least sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Star and Entourage | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

After the Middies' coxswain got his rudder back in gear, the yellow and blue shirts took off after the Crimson clan, and by the 1200-meter mark Navy was only a deck down...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard, Radcliffe Crews Both Take Easterns; Crimson Heavies Set Princeton Course Record | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...home to catch a TV program that Caroline had worked on. At the funeral, Christina and Jackie took separate launches to Skorpiós and walked apart to the chapel. Later, with Christina off to Switzerland, Jackie flew to Paris, no longer, it seemed, a member of the Onassis clan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: What Now for Jackie Onassis? | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

More Vulnerable. And what of the other clan, the Kennedys? Jackie's engagement to Onassis was at first greeted with conspicuous silence by the late President's family. Though John and Caroline are full members of the tribe of Kennedy cousins, the aunts and uncles, according to a family friend, "never know when they talk to Jackie whether it will be a week or a year before they hear from her again." Senator Edward Kennedy did make the trip to Skorpiós to lend the widow some support, but it is unlikely that his gesture signals Jackie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: What Now for Jackie Onassis? | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

Durgerian is credited with the inclusion of Eubie Blake in the ranks and files of the Classics clan. He presented the 92-year-old Blake with a team T-shirt, thus providing the squad with a much-needed veteran performer...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Harvard Classics: Fun While Winning | 2/28/1975 | See Source »

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