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...sandals, she pads across to where she will be photographed against a white paper drop. She grins at an onlooker. She can look a 6-ft. 2-in. man in the eye. The red flower in her hair looks like a pennant at the masthead of a racing sloop. Ellen Merlo has said that the one overriding reason for Tiegs' appeal is that her sexiness is not forbidding to men or offensive to women. This seems logical; how could anyone take offense at a sailboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The All-American Model | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Acceptance of appointment sharing by colleges is by no means universal. For example, when Peter and Sue Ellen Gruber, both now biologists at Mount Holyoke, were looking for jobs, they applied for every possible combination?his, hers, theirs?with separate letters of recommendation to match. But one time they mistakenly sent a joint letter to a college where only Sue Ellen was applying. Recalls Sue Ellen: "When the dean called me for an interview, he said, 'I notice that your husband is a biologist too. What will he do?' All of a sudden, he was backing away. I suggested that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Marriage of the Minds | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...Ellen Franklin, an organizer of the convention, said that speakers, professional authors and special events lure people to science fiction conventions; later, they get hooked on more esoteric "fannish" activities, and become a part of the sub-culture. "Going to the world science fiction convention becomes their summer vacation," and fans maintain friendships from convention to convention, Franklin said...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Close Encounters In Beantown | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

...comments make everything click," Ellen Burkhardt '79, who sang a Mozart piece for the class, said yesterday. Burkhardt said Curtin's comments greatly helped her performance...

Author: By Justina K. Carlson, | Title: Winthrop House Master Class Teaches Opera Singing Basics | 2/10/1978 | See Source »

...Boston Globe syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman recently wrote in an article about the late Hubert Humphrey that "It's ultimately as difficult to be a totally content person in an unjust society as it is to enjoy a banquet surrounded by starving people." It is difficult to believe that Jimmy Carter is not content in his way or that Jerry Brown isn't content in his world of Zen Buddhism and E.F. ("Small is Beautiful") Schumacher quotations, but it may well be true that Gary Hart is the only one among the prospective 1980 Democratic hopefuls who is discontented...

Author: By Steven R. Valentine, | Title: A Look Toward 1980 | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

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