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...most sought-after place of higher learning since applications to Harvard and Yale began to sag. Whether his book raises tingles at the back of your neck or curdles your vichysoisse, it is hard not to believe that somebody up there loves Richard Bach. Maybe even the Great Gull himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Bird! It's a Dream! It's Supergull! | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

...attendant problem of being displaced from his office while block students protected the Corporation's decision not to still Harvard's 700,000 shares of Gull stock did not contribute to Bok's leisure time. He works seven days a week already, he says. The situation was out of hand...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Committees, the Ceremonial and Purposeful | 10/14/1972 | See Source »

...must have theater. Alec, a worldly friend, asks why Raul has dressed in black. "I'm in mourning for my life," he replies. "Who is that from?" asks Alec, a bit off balance. "Chekhov," says Raul. "Ah, yes. But what play?" says Alec, recovering nicely. " 'The Sea Gull, I think. Yes, definitely, The Sea Gull.' He knew damn well it was The Sea Gull. But the footwork was marvelous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Black Prince | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...littered with rotting alewives, smelts and garbage. "I've been raking dead fish into piles, but I can't keep up with the amount that washes in," says Mrs. Josephine Hoehler, a summer resident. She notes another change: "I haven't seen one sea gull since I came up here three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Case of the Missing Gulls | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

...article's author is Thomas Stowell, a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, who in his youth studied under Sir William Gull, physician to Queen Victoria. Another of Gull's patients, writes Stowell, was Jack the Ripper. Although Stowell refers to the killer as "S" throughout the article, he drops enough clues to leave little doubt as to the madman's identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Who Was Jack the Ripper? | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

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