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...always led a rather nomadic life. She left New Mexico and her initial aquatic failure behind for Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, and then moved first to Alabarna and then to California, where she finished high school. After another move back to Kwajalein, her family took up residence in Jaspar, Alabama, this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shelby Calvert | 1/26/1983 | See Source »

...better writers from this period, and The Country Wife is one of his better plays, some say the best. The plot revolves around a professional rake named Horner, who with the help of his doctor, Quack, convinces the men of London society that he is impotent. Led by Sir Jaspar Fidget, these men of court eagerly dump their wives on Horner in the hopes that his "harmless" company will keep them away from young swains who would sooner cuckold a husband than look at one. Naturally, Horner spends the rest of the play leaping in and out of bed after...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: The Joy of Cuckoldry | 8/11/1978 | See Source »

...Dine, at the age of 41, can look back on almost two decades of creativity and success as an artist. Shortly after his arrival in New York in 1959, fresh from the University of Cinncinnati and the Boston Museum School, he met and was influenced by Claes Oldenburg, Jaspar Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. During the 1960s he became a major figure in the movement back to realism that formed in reaction to abstract expressionism...

Author: By Susan Cooke, | Title: Themes in Progress | 12/1/1976 | See Source »

...embassy in Kabul comes an urgent State Department order to locate Ellen Jaspar, a Bryn Mawr junior who has run off and married an Afghan engineer named Nazrullah. Thirteen months have passed since Ellen had last written her parents back home in Dorset, Pa. The task of finding the missing girl falls to Mark Miller, a junior embassy officer fluent in Pashto, the native language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bull Market | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

Died. Edmond Joseph Eugène Marie Jaspar, 49, Dutch-born lawyer, businessman, secretary-general of the Benelux Customs and Economic Union since its founding in 1946; of a heart attack; in Brussels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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