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...remember it was one of those very snowy Sunday nights. I got into a cab and practically rousted the poor guy out of bed to announce that, if he was willing, we'd like him to be the next President of Harvard," Burr said, flashing a broad grin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Francis Burr: the Man Who Selected the Man | 1/12/1971 | See Source »

When the psychiatrist asked "Isn't it fun?" the judge replied with an embarrassed grin, "I must tell you something. I was never permitted as a child to play with mud; my mother punished me when I came home dirty. My wife and I got into a lot of fights about our son because I couldn't stand seeing him playing with mud. Now I know how it feels and I am happy we can give our son a different experience from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Play Schools for Parents | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

Died. Charles Ruggles, 84, long one of Hollywood's most engaging comedians; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. With mischievous look and disarming grin, Ruggles performed in more than 90 films, most of them comedies (If i Had a Million, Charley's Aunt). He appeared so often as the husband of fluttery Mary Boland that fans thought that they were actually married. He returned to Broadway in 1958 (The Pleasure of His Company), then more recently took on warm, grandfatherly roles in Walt Disney features (The Ugly Dachshund, Follow Me, Boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 4, 1971 | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...Senate, is the fact that when the roll call came, 19 Senators who voted against Proxmire last year voted for him this time. Before the vote, Senator Edmund Muskie, long an environmental expert, spoke against the added funds and got Proxmire's thanks. Muskie responded with a grin and a clenched-fist gesture that seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Congress: Score One for Persistence | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...collective grandparents of the theaters of cruelty and the absurd. As Jarry lay dying at 34-of an acute brain inflammation caused by tuberculosis and aggravated by drink-he was obsessed by that image of death's anarchic joke, a skull and crossbones with its toothy eternal grin. To his last words he was defiantly absurdist: he asked for a toothpick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Paris Season | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

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