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...thing is to sound innocent but almost have sexy adventures. And sound on the inside. Like mentioning that daddy is a noble lord every so often and using plenty of Mayfair slang. I tell how debs get through dull parties by hiding War and Peace in the loo of the Dorchester where the dances are given. But a girl has to have lived or something. Otherwise she'll be a drip. So I thought I'd throw in some sentences like. "Lesbians aren't my swooniest subject." I mean, it came naturally after I had that woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Salably Swoony | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...Without a Shadow. At the level of its own high intentions, this brilliantly conceived novel does not quite succeed. But it has its virtues. The pomposities inherent in the rites of a cultural conference with its attendant careerists, officials and crafty or daft monomaniacs are wonderfully hit off. Surprisingly, Loo, Fiedler is able to convey the untheoretical delight of love entirely without the solemn telltale snuffle of the pornographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crazy Mythed-Up People | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

...study track and field five years ago, learned so fast that he ranks as one of the world's best all-round athletes. A decathlon star, he won a silver medal at the 1960 Olympics. He has been clocked at 9.4 sec. for the loo-yd. dash-just .2 sec. off the world record - runs the 120-yd. high hurdles in 13.9 sec., broad-jumps 25 ft. 5 in., high-jumps 6 ft. 4 in., whirls the javelin 238 ft. 7 in. But the pole vault is not Yang's cup of oolong. Until his big jump Yang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Please Be Good | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...been another monolith like Berkeley or U.C.L.A; it is one of three new branches of the California empire, each of them to be bigger than for example, private Stanford. What clinched the new plan was the stunning 2,000 acres of redwood forests and limestone quarries overlooking Monterey Bay, loo miles south of San Francisco Ihe university bought the land, settled loo years ago by Rancher Henry Cowell lor a rock-bottom $1,000 an acre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oxford on the Pacific | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Died. Wilhelmina, 82, Queen of The Netherlands from 1898 to 1948; of a heart attack; in her small, out-of-the-way Het Loo Palace 70 miles from The Hague (see THE WORLD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 7, 1962 | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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