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...Brattle St. (Greenleaf): Matina S. Horner, President of Radcliffe. 1971 assessment (not including land)--$73,300. Tax exempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Who's Who Of Faculty Renters | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...Deacon, now 59 and a Cadillac salesman in Rochester, N.Y., competed in his first world pocket-billiards championship match in 1937 and finished second to Ralph Greenleaf, the best pool player ever. Crane went on to win the world title five times between 1942 and 1970; he would have done even better if Willie Mosconi, probably the alltime second-best player, had not become his nemesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Deacon v. Machine Gun | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...hell and the devil and the apocalypse which are the common denominators of her characters' psyches. These "fixes" themselves are apocalyptic, perversely so. As the "A" is burned into the flesh over Dimmesdale's heart in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Mrs. May's heart in "Greenleaf" is gored by the bull that her handyman, Greenleaf, cannot keep penned...

Author: By Tina Rathborne, | Title: The Complete Stories | 2/22/1972 | See Source »

...kind of sex fantasy, but the promises are not always matched by the product. Printed matter is still the most common form of porn, much of it supplied by such relatively new publishing houses as Los Angeles' Oxford Bindery and Manhattan's Olympia. San Diego's Greenleaf Classics churns out 36 titles a month, each with a 30,000 print order. "I have never lost money on a sex book," says Bill Hambling, Greenleafs chief. Many smut books are printed in regular union shops during the slack early-morning hours; shops sometimes charge five times as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enterprise: The Rich Pornocopia | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

...very pleasant to live here in our beautiful world," she wrote to Poet John Greenleaf Whittier. "I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long." By the calendar, Helen Keller was nine when she corresponded with Whittier. By Helen's own insistent reckoning, she was not quite three. She considered that her real life, her "soul's birthday," as she put it, began when Anne Sullivan, who herself had been half-blind before surgery, penetrated Helen's limbo of blind, deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: A Life of Joy | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

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