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...styles that recall the captivating doldrums of Chekhov and the eerie menace of Paul Bowles. Wolff also demonstrates a stinging wit. An old Irish priest likes to tell his parishioners and colleagues that he does not have time to die. "One night he said it at dinner and Father Leo thought, Make time." That is a line worthy of Oscar Wilde. --By R.Z. Sheppard

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spirits of '76...BACK IN THE WORLD | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...same name, the DoveBar is old news in Chicago but attained stardom in supermarkets and on street corners around the country in '85. The hard-to-handle quarter-pound ice-cream bar has a crackling coating of dark chocolate candy. Invented in the early 1950s by Chicago Confectioner Leo Stefanos, this frozen dessert melts all resistance even at prices that range from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most Of '85: Goodbye to Gumbo and All That | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...baseball man who managed to build contenders on low budgets. He predicted that his tombstone would inevitably bear the message HE SENT A MIDGET UP TO BAT. Once he asked that the epitaph be cleaned up a bit to read, more piously, HE HELPED THE LITTLE MAN. --By John Leo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Veeck: 1914-1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...single men. But the new Other Women seem to be just as disenchanted with their married men as the old Other Women. Richardson says that "the overwhelming majority" of those she interviewed said they would not advise any woman to get involved with a married man. --By John Leo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: The Scarlet Lady Fades to Pink | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...GEORGIA Belated Justice For Leo Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Mar 24, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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