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...reporter's job at Hearst's Mirror and taught him to write short sentences that tugged at the heartstrings. Bishop tugged away off and on for twelve years at the Mirror, drifted through jobs as a ghost writer for Hellinger, became an editor at Collier's and ended up as a freelancer, mired in drink, depression and debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making It News | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...gooders, nervy deadbeats, moochers, saboteurs, spies and traitors"; of pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Schooled in controversy, Maury spent the early 1940s simultaneously turning out anti-interventionist, anti-F.D.R. tracts for the right-wing News and pro-interventionist, pro-F.D.R. views for the editorial page of liberal Collier's magazine. "An editorial writer," he explained, "is like a lawyer or a public relations man: his job is to make the best possible case for his client...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 4, 1981 | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

Assistant Attorneys General Adrienne Collier and Rhonda Singer say they expect to investigate eight to ten other ghostly firms in the next 30 days. Meanwhile, hundreds of C.R.S. clients will have to write their own term papers-or buy them elsewhere. In fact, several anxious students called C.R.S. to ask about their papers while the raid was in progress last week. Their requests met no sympathy from the investigator who was answering the C.R.S. phone. Later some even telephoned the attorney general's office to ask for their papers. They had already paid for the work, they said. Besides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Straight A's at $3.50 a Page | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...which he does in a short stay in the Grand Hotel, a turn of the century lakeside resort, a place heavy with the gaiety of turn of the century America slowly turned to dust. Collier falls in love during his stay, not as you might expect with a woman, but with a photograph. Elise McKenna, famed actress and recluse, smiles her elusive smile across seven decades to Collier and he is hooked. What follows is an obsession which will take Collier into local libraries and archives, on visits to the actress's old friends, and ultimately, to a local professor...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Adolph's Rib | 10/9/1980 | See Source »

...this film is all about--a long slow tableau of a beautiful man and a beautiful woman doing beautiful things. But it is contrived, painting a tortured tableau. This is not a fantasy out of Bronte, it's a photo essay out of Penthouse. Jane Seymour, as the actress Collier loves, is hauntingly beautiful--but she spends most of the movie in soft focus, always on the verge of letting her hair down, ringlets playing about her ears, draped in lace. That old fantasy of Victorian women with all that fancy lingerie. Set against Reeves' incompetence...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Adolph's Rib | 10/9/1980 | See Source »

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