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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lord of Misrule has proclaimed the onset of midsummer madness at Eliot House, and a lovelier holiday feast-time never was. The great hall is filled with music, fustian, courtiers on carpet consideration, ladies with damask cheeks, and a fool in motley. This is a fine matter indeed for a May evening...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Twelfth Night | 6/11/1962 | See Source »

...Lord of Misrule has proclaimed the onset of midsummer madness at Eliot House, and a lovelier holiday feast-time never was. The great hall is filled with music, fustian, courtiers on carpet consideration, ladies with damask cheeks, and a fool in motley. This is a fine matter indeed for a May evening...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Twelfth Night | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

...Italian orphans and students, Party-Giver Maxwell did an improbable impersonation of Anita Ekberg's sexy splashings in La Dolce Vita, wound up by tossing the toy cat she was holding to the audience. "Even at my age," said she, "I am perfectly willing to make a fool of myself." Dark days were upon the royal equestrians. At the Ascot riding show, Princess Anne, 11, trying a bit too hard to please the judge, Queen Elizabeth, lost out on the prizes by faulting four times-once for riding so high in her stirrups on a hurdle that she came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 4, 1962 | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...anonymous caller told the police to be on the lookout for a letter that contained a railroad baggage check which led to the recovery of 20 modern paintings, worth $600,000, stolen from the Riviera's Colombe d'Or Inn in St.-Paul-de-Vence on April Fool's Day, 1960. Last week, la belle téléphone rang again, with even more spectacular news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: La Belle Telephone | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...allies and farm friends, although Stanton never could abide Lincoln's habit of cracking jokes in time of crisis. "God damn it to hell," Stanton stormed after one round of presidential humor, "was there ever such nonsense?" Stanton once told a petitioner that the President was a damned fool. When the petitioner repeated the remark to the President, Lincoln professed astonishment: "Did Stanton call me a damn fool? Well, I guess I had better step over and see Stanton about this. Stanton is usually right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man for the Job | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

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