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...Developed World The excellent "Postcard: North Parsonfield" by Christopher Ketcham was almost worth my year's subscription to TIME on its own [Nov. 16]. This short item shone a bright light on how close some pockets of U.S. society are to parts of the Third World, with their lack of health care and their gun-toting distrust of democratic institutions. In an entirely nonjudgmental way I could not help thinking how at home, with perhaps a few cultural adjustments for the position of women, the Chutes and their neighbors might be among the Pashtun of Afghanistan. Dr. Stephen Hopkins, ECCLES...
Harvard is home to a bunch of hidden “bests”. But who would have known that Harvard’s Schlesinger Library in the old Radcliffe yard possesses one of the foremost culinary literature collections in the world? Curator and prominent American food historian Barbara Ketcham Wheaton was honored for her development of the Harvard cookbook collection last Saturday at an event, “The Cook’s Oracle,” that featured a predominantly senior crowd. “[Cooking] is a subject that touches every life every...
...Patterson, himself a Second-Team All-American last year, rounds out Harvard’s top five. Patterson, who teamed with Karlen to win the Ketcham Trophy as national doubles champion, may have benefited more from Karlen’s injury than anyone else. While every Crimson player gained valuable experience when the lineup was shifted to compensate for Karlen’s absence, Patterson played as high as No. 1, giving him the chance to compete against the nation’s best...
DIED. HANK KETCHAM, 81, creator of the impish cartoon character Dennis the Menace and his crotchety neighbor Mr. Wilson; in Pebble Beach, Calif. Ketcham conceived the strip in October 1950 after his own mischievous four-year-old, named Dennis, caused his exasperated mother to exclaim to Ketcham, "Your son is a menace!" (Father and son were later estranged.) In 1951 Ketcham began drawing the strip, which ran for 50 years in 1,000 newspapers and 48 countries...
FORTUNE 500 companies on merchandising strategies and manages the business affairs of athletes and other celebrities. Some of McCormack's clients: Tennis Stars Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert Lloyd, Ski Champ Jean-Claude Killy, baseball's Jim Rice, and Hank Ketcham, the creator of Dennis the Menace. Officials of the Wimbledon and U.S. Open tennis tournaments rely on McCormack to negotiate for them with television networks, and his firm has already been hired as a television consultant by the organizing committees of the 1988 Calgary and Seoul Olympics. When Pope John Paul II visited Britain...