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...Haiti's Dictator Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier has always acted as if he expected to be President in Perpetuity. His 1964 constitution made no provision for a successor. In fact, Papa Doc found the whole subject so offensive that he had his wife's brother-in-law, Lucien Daumec, executed in 1964 for showing too much interest in the job. Three years later he condemned his son-in-law, Max Dominique, to death for plotting, but reprieved him and instead executed 19 of Dominique's fellow army officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Intimations of Mortality | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...Lester Kinsolving comes from one of the royal families of the Episcopal Church. His great-grandfather, Ovid Americus Kinsolving, was a Virginia pastor and a spy for the Confederacy. His grandfather, Lucien Lee Kinsolving, was a missionary bishop in Brazil. His late father, Arthur B. Kinsolving II, was chaplain at West Point and, later, Bishop of Arizona. His great-uncle George was Bishop of Texas. A distant cousin, Charles J. Kinsolving III, is currently Bishop of New Mexico. Yet probably no Kinsolving has ever been heard by a wider audience-and certainly none has gone after an audience more flamboyantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Irreverent Reverend | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

Today is Beethoven's 200th birthday. In the year he turned 175, the Harvard Glee Club heard the most important address ever delivered at one of its annual banquets. Entitled "Amphion's Lyre," the speech was given by the late Lucien Price '07, talking without notes. Price, the author of many books, was for almost half a century the chief editorialist of the Boston Globe. Beethoven starts his third century in a year plagued by war. Below are the concluding paragraphs of Price's remarks spoken 25 years ago in another time racked...

Author: By Lucien Price, | Title: Anniversaries Beethoven in a Time of War | 12/16/1970 | See Source »

...paid to attend the actual event. So the MGM executives, never loath to jog after a trend, shoved a camera crew, armed with Metrocolor and Panavision, off to Vegas. Denis Sanders, who had recently won an Oscar for a documentary entitled Czechoslovakia, 1968, was sent along to direct; Lucien Ballard, an old hand at composing stunning Western visuals, was put in charge of cinematography. Assignment: Get Elvis, on film, for a Thanksgiving distribution date...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Amerikultcha And Elvis Went Into The Desert... | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...Wild Bunch and Tell Them Willie Boy is Here. Two American westerns, one a graphic epic on violence by a young director (Sam Peckinpaugh), the other a psychological exploration of racial genocide by an old and, for twenty years, blacklisted filmmaker (Abraham Polonsky). Lucien Ballard's color photography in the former and Robert Redford's performance in the latter are added treats...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Moviegoer Ten Best Films of 1969 | 1/9/1970 | See Source »

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