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...Ohio on the Kentucky-Illinois border. More than 50 feet wide and 140 feet deep, the cave provided all that a hardened criminal could ask for: prostitutes "none cranny, gambling in another; heaps of counterfeit coin; and an escape hatch in the rear. The cave, Wellman writes, was the "lair of the worst cutthroats, freebooters and gallows-birds this continent ever witnessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Charnel Trail | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...World of Henry Orient is a precociously smart comedy that proposes juvenile innocence as an effective curb on adult delinquency. Chief delinquent is Peter Sellers, who as Concert Pianist Henry Orient attempts to seduce an undecided young matron (Paula Prentiss). Circling his prey in a lush Manhattan lair, he glances into the street, and blanches at what he sees: two diminutive furies, one as apple-cheeked and winsome as Heidi, the other an indescribable creature with sheep-dog hairdo, daredevil eyes, and a tacky mink coat that grazes her ankles. What do they want? "It's exactly the sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Growing Up in Gotham | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

Predictably, when the curtain fell last week in the converted moviehouse that is her winter lair, she could claim one of the best 1 Puritani productions ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: The Persistent One | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...Margaret Leighton (they played opposite each other in As You Like It). Now Harvey lives in the $1,000,000 Beverly Hills hut of blonde and sumptuous Joan Cohn, 42-year-old widow of Harry Cohn, the onetime king of Columbia Pictures. Inside this off-white, Louis XV lair, Harvey whispers apologetically to visitors, "This isn't really my taste. It isn't really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Boy Prince | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...this juncture that severe group pressures begin to attack the student. Specific cafes and plazas are the very definite hangouts of various groups. On the Terrace, another of the Union lunch spots, a large foreign and graduate student block congregates. Both the Bear's Lair and Jules', an off-campus restaurant, are the sanctums of the fraternity-sorority crowd. One sorority girl commented that she "never saw any of her friends on the Terrace," but always found them at Jules...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Univ. of California at Berkeley: Cliques and Student Alienation | 2/23/1963 | See Source »

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