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...chair was endowed in 1985, with a gift of more than $1.25 million from Boston businessman George C. Reisman. Very little is known about the donor, said Med School spokesman Lillian F. Blacker. "He has remained very shy of public attention," she said...
...fury of a victim can exceed his skill at handling a weapon defensively. A Kansas City couple, Thomas Hill, 76, and his wife Lillian, 72, were surprised by an intruder in their home. Thomas picked up a pistol off a table and fired. The intruder grabbed the gun. Thomas pulled a second pistol out of his pocket and tried six shots. The robber seized that gun too. Lillian emerged from the kitchen and squeezed off three more shots. Not one bullet hit the invader, who escaped with all three guns. As he fled, he avoided three more rifle shots from...
...Lillian Hellman once wrote, in an attempt to explain Richard Nixon's reemergence in 1968, that Americans don't like to remember too much, that the images of today obscure the truths of the past. Some commentators insist that Mondale's surge comes too late, that it follows too disjointed a campaign; and that the memory of the Reagan of September will overwhelm those of Mr. October. But for the past week, each of the evening newscasts has begun with pictures of Mondale as a self-assured, confident man acting like a winner and, the reporters tell us, with some...
Everyone can use an aphorism. I wish I could remember one, something especially Delphic or brilliant from The Consolation of Philosophy, the Bhagavad Gita, the Koran. Charlie Chan said: "Evidence like nose on anteater." Does that count? Russians are better at such things. Once in my earshot Lillian Hellman observed: "A crazy person is crazy all the time." I have frequently found that valuable, particularly when in the company of a crazy person who is, for the moment, lucid. Confucius said: "Filial piety is the constant requirement of Heaven." That seems to me an excellent aphorism...
...from O'Neill in all these promotions, Ferraro brought talent to the tasks and early won the respect of House colleagues. She showed herself to be an organization Democrat who, despite her evident ambition, played by the rules. She loyally supported Jimmy Carter after he sent his mother Lillian to Queens to stump on Ferraro's behalf. "When someone does something for me," Ferraro says, "I don't forget." Congressman Leon Panetta, a California Democrat, vouches for her political savvy. "She doesn't shoot from the hip," he says. "She's sensitive to issues...