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...noble D'Ascoyne clan, gets to be knocked off seven (or eight) times by a commoner who has it in for the family. Sipping poisoned port, crashing in a punctured balloon or sinking with his ship, no one has ever kicked the bucket for so many laughs. A fickle Joan Greenwood finally lands the mass assassin in jail for the one murder he never committed. Bouncing back in his jail cell, though, he chipperly narrates us the story of raucous D'Ascoyne murders. After all, who could regret even betrayal to the tune of Greenwood's inimitable voice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

...company," had been circulating among the Expository Writing faculty for years. It had long recognized the inadequacy of a single term of Expos to serve a student's writing needs. Finally, last spring, Donald Byker, asstant director of Expository Writing, decided something should be done and asked Weinstein and Joan Bolker, each of whom bears the elegant title of Preceptor in Expository Writing, to organize the center. Assistant Director of Expository Writing Byker agreed to provide money for three part-time employees; the University found space for the center in Room 309 of Hilles Library; and the Writing Center...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: Helping Johnny Write | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

ARIZONA. First Congressional District -Pat Fullinwider (D) v. Incumbent John Rhodes (R): Minority Leader Rhodes narrowly defeated Pat in 1974, is now running scared. CALIFORNIA. Twelfth District-David Harris (D) v. Incumbent Paul McCloskey (R): an antiwar protester and Singer Joan Baez's ex faces McCloskey, a four-term liberal, in a close one. FLORIDA. Fifth District-JoAnn Saunders (D) v. Incumbent Richard Kelly (R): Saunders offers money back if she wins and contributors dislike her stands. Her money should be safe. ILLINOIS. Tenth District-Incumbent Abner Mikva (D) v. Samuel Young (R): in the third match-up between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A SPICY SET OF STATE RACES | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...15th century and borrows stories when he runs out of his own. Henry IV, he announces, "was something of an in somniac, and his struggles to get to sleep weren't much assisted by his habit of wearing his crown in bed." He claims to have seen Joan of Arc disguised as a deer. He talks of a blustering poet, "all red and arrogant and full of spondees." He spins a long unlikelihood to illustrate a proverb made up on the spot: "The Devil is most likely to strike when you have your trousers down." Oops! Bad taste? Upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Babble of Green Fields | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...Joan Cohen and her husband, Jerome, professor of Law, stood chatting with Kendall and reporters early yesterday evening...

Author: By Nicole Seligman and Richard S. Weisman, S | Title: Most Massachusetts Incumbents Win; Voters Adopt Equal Rights Amendment | 11/3/1976 | See Source »

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