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...Hubert Humphrey ever raised anyone from the dead? Who are these people down in Washington that we should place our lives in their care?" The speaker is Billy Brown, a dissident space-project physicist, and not since Humbert Humbert toured America with Lolita, strewing outrageous verbal brickbats along the way, has a zany voice like Billy's been heard in the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Will THEY Never Come? | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...himself as an anarchist. But he seemed such a dubious character in even that company that five days before his murder of President William McKinley, Free Society, an anarchist periodical, carried a warning that he was a spy. After reading of the anarchist assassination of Italy's King Humbert I, the idea of killing the President began to grow in his mind. A week before the murder, he bought a .32-cal pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE EARLIER ASSASSINS | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

...songs. "What could I have been thinking of? Was it with you I fell in love?" sings a disillusioned Aznavour husband. "I gaze at you in sheer despair and see your mother standing there." Other songs deal with fading Don Juans, wifely nagging, and Who Gets Lolita When Humbert Humbert Dies? "I have no intellectual colleagues," Aznavour says from his artistic pinnacle, "but my rapport is with everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Tu Paries, Charles | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...piece for double teen-age suicide; it was among the year's biggest hits. This year's first hit was Go Away, Little Girl, in which the message sounds suspiciously like a souvenir from Lolita. It is sung by Steve Lawrence, who, perhaps significantly, has reached the Humbert Humbertish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: St. Joan of the Jukebox | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

After a cautious first quarter, Penn altered its defensive posture. Working with the wind, the Quakers overloaded their attacking line for the power play. When a long kick skidded past the Harvard fullback, halfbacks Johann Stein and Peter. Humbert moved the ball toward the goal. Stein took a shot, and scored. Five minutes later, Humbert got his turn on a similar power play, and made it 2-0 Penn...

Author: By Jonathan D. Trobe, | Title: Soccer Team Loses, 4-0, Against Quakers in Rain | 11/5/1962 | See Source »

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