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...green pool one Sunday afternoon, Neddy Merrill decides to swim home. It pleases him to imagine that his neighbors' swimming pools form the course of a broad river winding through fertile fields to the grounds of his own fine house. He names the river after his wife Lucinda and sets out at a choppy crawl. At the Grahams' he is given a drink, and at the Bunkers', where a pool party is going on, he gets another. "Oh, how bonny and lush were the banks of the Lucinda River! Prosperous men and women gathered by the sapphire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Edge of Darkness | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...full of scenic wonders-a Carlsbad spa with fountains spouting real water, a Christmas vision of Old Vienna filigreed in confectioner's icing, a wedding extravaganza such as only Broadway angels can afford. In and about these Oliver Smith settings cavort the Wiener Burger, garbed by Lucinda Ballard in resplendent turn-of-the-century costumes. Unfortunately, there is little more to this comic operetta than meets the eye, or greets the ear in a waltzy-schmalzy score. The best way to simulate an evening at The Gay Life is to do what is done onstage: open two bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Old Old Vienna | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...broke through the wintry sky as the funeral cortege made its way to Willow Wild Cemetery, where, in the family plot, Sam Rayburn was laid to rest beside the grave of his favorite sister, Lucinda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Laid to Rest | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...youngest of ten children-all of whom went to college. He played baseball at five, quarterbacked his high school football team in Laurel and ran hurdles well enough to earn an athletic scholarship to Tennessee State (which has also turned out such female sprinters as Wilma Rudolph and Lucinda Williams). A straight B student in biochemistry despite his frequent absences, Boston hopes to enter medical school after graduation next January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Walking on Air | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...takes brilliant acting, colorful sets by William Pitkin, and clever costumes by Lucinda Ballard to rescue the conglomeration of sorry old saws put together by writer-director Arthur Laurents...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Invitation to a March | 10/18/1960 | See Source »

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