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...between Paris and Saigon, who could crash in the Sahara and survive, rescued by Bedouins. He was also the acclaimed author of such international best sellers as the novel Night Flight (1931) and the children's tale The Little Prince (1943). As if these achievements did not generate sufficient glamour, Antoine de Saint- Exupery also managed a death that was both heroic and mysterious. At 44, he had won permission to fly photoreconnaissance missions over his native France. On July 31, 1944, he took off from an Allied base in Corsica and never returned. He may have been forced down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Inveterate Soloist Wartime Writings: 1939-1944 | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...along on the troupe's first American appearance since 1948. Expectations for the visit ran very high. The company's school is considered one of the world's best, a preserver of both the French and Italian technique and dance vocabulary. The institution itself has an ineffable aura of glamour, and in three years as dance director, Rudolf Nureyev has earned a reputation for leading it energetically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Dark Nights At the Opera | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Enough carping. In an age that rewards strength over grace, let there be women as strong as Weaver's Ripley. May homeless children have no less ferocious an adoptive mother; may extraterrestrial predators meet no less resourceful an antagonist. Trust that a million moviegoers will find the glamour beneath the smudged sweat on Ripley's face, and the feral humor in her challenge to Big Mama Alien: "Get away from her, you bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Years of Living Splendidly | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...Adams House resident was the only undergraduate ever to serve in this capacity. Hastings plans to continue studying business-economics, and told Glamour that she "hopes to spend many years wading through rice paddies and banging on ministerial doors...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: Magazine Lauds 2 at Harvard | 7/18/1986 | See Source »

...women are currently travelling in Europe and could not be reached for comment. The prizes awarded to the winners of the competition included $500, an all-expense paid trip to New York to meet the professional woman of their choice, and a 10-diamond "I" pin, said Wanda Bolton, Glamour's competitions editor...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: Magazine Lauds 2 at Harvard | 7/18/1986 | See Source »

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