Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thousand other names all jammed in this Manhattan cellar raising money for the Paris Review, which practically none of them reads but which George Plimpton, 46, edits when he is not sparring with Archie Moore or playing football and writing books like Paper Lion. "Everything George touches turns to gold," says one writer, looking around. "That's why I hate...
...books of the New Testament are considerably more vivid in their portrayal of the hereafter. In Revelation, heaven is described as a city of "pure gold" whose walls are "adorned with every jewel," and hell is called "the lake that burns with fire and brimstone"; in hell, according to Matthew, sinners "will weep and gnash their teeth." Though scholars regard such descriptions as being primarily imagery, Christianity at one time accepted them as literally true. In the Middle Ages, Dante confidently limned a topography of the beyond that seemed as convincingly detailed as a map of Italy...
Divorced. Andrea Mead Lawrence, 35, once the world's fastest woman skier, who won for the U.S. two Olympic gold medals in 1952 (TIME cover, Jan. 21, 1952); and David Lawrence, 37, U.S. giant-slalom champion in 1949; on uncontested mutual charges of cruelty; after 16 years of marriage, five children; in Los Angeles...
Army's Dan Seebart won two gold medals in the Heps, but Crimson sophomores Dick Benka in the shot put and Bruce Hedendahl in the discus were breathing down his neck...
...priceless cello bow, belonging to Soviet cellist Mstislav Rostropivich, was stolen Sunday at the musician's open rehearsal at Sanders Theatre. The bow, made out of tortoise shell with gold trim, was a gift from Gregor Piatagorsky, another world-famous cellist. Inscribed on it are "sartory" and "made especially for Mr.Piatagorsky...