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NONFICTION: Eleni, Nicholas Gage Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity, Robert McAfee Brown Kleist, Joachim Maass ¶The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Jun. 20, 1983 | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

...deputies, such as Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who in turn determine what the paychecks of their aides will show. Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, is responsible for the $86,000 lion's share of Brooks's six-figure salary...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Passing Out the Bucks | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...often in disguise, Han's friends come to rescue him: first that robotic dynamic duo, See-Threepio (C-3PO), the gold-plated neurotic with a proper English accent (Anthony Daniels), and Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2), who looks like a tank-type vacuum cleaner but has the heart of a lion. Then Solo's bearlike copilot Chewbacca, the 7-ft. 5-in. Wookie; the feisty Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher); and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), the smooth-talking leader of The Empire Strikes Back's Cloud City. And finally the hero, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who already has many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Galloping Galaxies! | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

NONFICTION: Eleni, Nicholas Gage The Forties, Edmund Wilson ∙The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, William Manchester Lectures on Don Quixote, Vladimir Nabokov ∙A Private View, Irene Mayer Selznick ∙White Mischief, James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: May 23, 1983 | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

Jennie Jerome. Manchester does offer a few correctives to the Churchill legend that will undoubtedly be treated more fully in the concluding volume. He asserts that the Last Lion's daily intake of alcohol has been grossly exaggerated, and that he did not know in advance that Coventry would be destroyed by the Luftwaffe on Nov. 14, 1940. Some World War II historians have contended that the pugnacious Prime Minister sacrificed the city and its inhabitants to keep the Germans from realizing that England had broken their code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Zigzag Lightning in the Brain | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

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