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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power and love. Her leading lady (Geraldine Page) is a gabby genteel old maid, one of those wispy little women who flutter through the literature of the South like a flock of steel butterflies. She lives in a rotting ancestral manse, she graciously permits her spinster sister (Wendy Hiller) to wait on her hand and foot, she justifies her gistless existence by smother-mothering her younger brother (Dean Martin). The brother is a frivolous failure and she likes him that way. He makes her feel necessary, he makes her feel important; and in pursuing his problems she escapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Steel Butterfly | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...infield Orlando Cepeda's eye trouble may prove more troublesome than his current hold-out. Chuch Hiller, Jose Pagan, and Jim Davenport are competently slick, but nothing more. As for the staff, Billy Pierce is 36 and Jack Sanford 34. Each had a peak year in '62 and it would be hubris to assume repeat performances (even though Sanford comes from Wellesley and is highly praised in the Globe...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/18/1963 | See Source »

What heroics the two teams generated came from the lightweights and rookies, who suddenly discovered muscles they hardly knew existed. "That wasn't my best shot-I still have a little in reserve," insisted the Giants' 175-lb. Second Baseman Chuck Hiller, after he sent Rightfielder Maris back to the wall for a 296-ft. drive in the third game. Sportswriters snickered; Hiller shrugged. Next day, with the bases loaded in the seventh inning, Hiller clouted a hanging curve deep into Yankee Stadium's rightfield stands for the first series grand slam ever hit by a National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookies & Lightweights | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

SECOND BASE--The Yankees have "little" Booby Richardson, and all fans know he is murder in a series. He wasn't bad during the season, either, with a .302 mark and 209 hits. Chuck Hiller (.275), the Giant, is adequate, but no immortal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reluctant Flag Winners Begin Series | 10/4/1962 | See Source »

Under the terms of the grant, two legal historians, L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel, will become research associates in Harvard Law School for the purpose of editing the legal papers. They will work under the supervision of Mark DeWolfe Howe, professor of Law at Harvard, and L. H. Butterfield, editor-in-chief of "The Adams Papers" at the Massachusetts Historical Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Will Publish Legal Papers of John Adams | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

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