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...pork knows that the most likely author of Sawyer's assist down the hatchway was Henry Wellard. Wellard is known to have suffered repeatedly under Sawyer's sadistic paranoia, and was described as "highly agitated" on the night of the incident. The testimony of the Marine corporal, Greenwood, places Wellard with Hornblower near the hatchway, and both Marine Captain Whiting and Lieut. William Bush found Wellard at the scene. Hornblower's later refusal to discuss the incident obviously indicates that he was covering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 5, 1971 | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...Logic. The first part is hilarious. Esther Greenwood, as the heroine is called, is an awkward rube of a girl with "fifteen years of straight A's" behind her but absolutely no experience of life -even as it was known to teen-agers in the '50s. She and her fellow "guest" editors are herded around the city "like a wedding party with nothing but bridesmaids." Upon discovering caviar, Esther consumes a pound or so at a magazine luncheon, paving her plate with chicken slices and smearing on the high-priced spread. But she knows that the whole enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady Lazarus | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...Esther Greenwood in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar stands on the sun roof of the Amazon Hotel for single girls and lets fly with her forty dollar city dresses into the New York City night. She and cloven other college girls had won a month with a well-known women's fashion magazine, and now they were all going back home. For Esther it was home to her mother and a New England suburb for the summer. She was quitting the city and she hadn't even found a drink she liked, "My dream was ordering a drink...

Author: By Tina Rathborne, | Title: Book The Bell Jar | 5/4/1971 | See Source »

Born. To Strom Thurmond, 68, South Carolina's Republican Senator, and Nancy Moore Thurmond, 24, former Miss South Carolina (1966): their first child, a girl; in Greenwood, S.C. Name: Nancy Moore. Watching her perform noisily in her crib, Thurmond quipped: "I believe she's staging a filibuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 12, 1971 | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

Director John Greenwood would have done well to edit the last portions of the play; he at least provided a swift pacing of the action, so the repetitive motifs in the play did not become too wearisome...

Author: By James M. Lewis, | Title: Death Rituals Loot at the Loeb Ex | 3/3/1971 | See Source »

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