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...mustachios and snicker up his sleeve, so it's obvious there's a will and this is the stepmother's naughty way of contesting it. But watch out. A couple of nasty surprises have been stirred into the routine ingredients of this unsavory little chiller con carne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tricky Quickie | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...avec couronne de riz clamart (hunter-style chicken with rice), framboises à la crème Chantilly and petits jours secs. After dinner, the guests strolled across the lawn to rows of camp chairs, settled back for a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra (selections: Mozart's Allegro con Spirito from Symphony No. 35 in D Major, Gershwin's American in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Brass & Iron | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...politeness and even civility. One Brandeis professor suggested that since Handlin seemed incapable of hate, he might well be incapable of love; another rose to announce that Elchmann was going broke, and perhaps the hat ought to be passed--to Handlin first, of course. When Hughes stated at the con of the ing that he had previous obligations and could not spend the rest of the evening at Brandeis, he was harassed and booed, and told by the angry audience that he really had no interest in the problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN APOLOGY | 5/4/1961 | See Source »

ARNOLD R. ISAACS '61 spent last summer in the Ashanti of Ghana as a participant in Operation Crossroads-Africa a research assistant in a study evaluating the participants' Recently, he participated in the Washington Con- on the Peace Corps. A History and Literature major, he Leverett House...

Author: By Arnold R. Isaacs, | Title: What's Happening to the Peace Corps? | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

Dick was right. At 24 he had gone as far as the New York Evening Sun. Second day on the job, accosted by a con man in City Hall Park, he tackled the fellow, hollered for the cops, and wrote the story up with a gusto that made him from that moment the Sun's star reporter. Within a year he had a national reputation as the author of some witty and wildly popular short stories. At 25 he took over as managing editor of Harper's Weekly, at that time probably the nation's most prestigious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Richard the Literary Lion | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

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