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...Wednesday. Those chosen are Judith A. Abrams '60, of Briggs Hall and Brooklyn, N.Y., majoring in English, Shelia A. Greibach '60, of Briggs Hall and New Rochelle, N.Y., Linguistics and Applied Mathematics, Alice J. Hendrickson '60, of Whitman Hall and Seattle, Wash., Social Relations, Alice M. Maffry '60, of Gillan House and New York City, Classics, Majory Mauser '60, of Eliot Hall and New York City, History and Literature, and Jeanne Rosen '60, of Saville House and Cincinnati, Ohio, English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe PBK Elects Six | 3/13/1959 | See Source »

...billing. While all the two-legged characters wade around uncertainly in one another's shallow psyches, the purposeful tabby chews up half the population of India (although only two on-camera) and chops Actor Stewart Granger to bits. Prowling through the hill country of southern India, Cameraman Harry Gillan has brought back some startling footage on a real cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Elegance on a Plank. Perhaps the most intrepid of the Perth survivors was Engineer Lieut. Frank Gillan. When the second torpedo hit and Perth keeled over, he was trapped far below decks. Only perfect presence of mind and the lucky chance that his Mae West was only half-inflated saved him. As the water rose in the sinking hull. Gillan calmly let himself float upward with it through the pitch-dark passages of the ship, the air in his life jacket buoying him gently, but not so much as to force him against the overhead, where he could not maneuver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Art of Not Dying | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...night Lieut. Gillan and several hundred of his shipmates went swirling down Sunda Strait toward the Indian Ocean through waters slick with oil and glaring in the searchlights of the triumphant Japs. In the morning a raft full of wounded and exhausted sailors saw the sight of their lives-Gillan sitting elegantly on a large plank, dressed in nothing but his Mae West and an officer's pith helmet. As he swept by. the lieutenant politely tipped his topi and remarked in clipped tones, "Good morning, gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Art of Not Dying | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...Edward Leiter, 39, actor, nephew of the late Chicago Tycoon Joseph Leiter; during a thunderstorm in Egremont, Mass. She divorced her first husband, one Andrew Ulback, secretly last fortnight in Mexico. Divorced. Ethel Catherwood McLaren, Canadian gymnast, "most beautiful woman athlete of the 1928 Olympic Games"; from James Gillan McLaren of Toronto; in Reno. Grounds: nonsupport. She intends to marry one Byron Mitchell, San Francisco gymnasium instructor. Judgment Awarded. To Myrtle St. Pierre: $5,000 in her $200,000 breach of promise suit against David Hutton, husband of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; in Los Angeles. Hearing the verdict, Sister McPherson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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