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...early American suffragettes, Lucy Stone, refused to adopt her husband's name when she got married to Henry Blackwell in 1855, arguing that "my name is the symbol of my identity." Her name also became a rallying cry for other women who chose to keep their maiden names, though relatively few have done so until the past few years. Today growing numbers of married women are following in Lucy Stone's footsteps. Explains Pat Montandon, a San Francisco writer and former television moderator: "What is important about your own name is the psychology of being yourself instead...
Most real-life lawmen, however, find that TV crime shows bear little relation to reality. "Take a recent episode of Streets of San Francisco, " says San Francisco Private Investigator Harold Lipset. "Karl Maiden and his partner drive right up to a suspect's house and park in front. While they are inside, the suspect drives up, sees the car and gets away. Obviously you wouldn't do something like that." Even more often, says TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce, himself an ex-policeman, TV cops "go to every call with squad lights flashing and sirens screaming." That, he says...
...Review (No. 17), Philip Roth contributed a compassionate sketch of Kafka that - yes - metamorphosed into an autobiographical fantasy. Roth imagined that Kafka did not die of tuberculosis in 1924 at 41, but emigrated to New Jersey where he became Roth's Hebrew-school teacher and suitor of his maiden aunt...
Organized tennis then rarely encouraged competitors from the public courts, but little Miss Moffitt (her maiden name) shouldered her way through local and regional tournaments wearing a pair of homemade shorts, cussing herself on the court in most unladylike fashion and eating too much ice cream. When she was 16 she finally began private lessons; Alice Marble took her on as a protegee. Two years later, Billie Jean achieved instant recognition at Wimbledon by upsetting the top seed, Margaret Smith (later Mrs. Court...
...Harvard's little idiosyncracies that stems from one of Harvard's eccentric donors. Harry Elkins Widner, a non-swimmer, was killed when the Titanic went down during its maiden voyage in 1912. In his memory, his mother erected a library--the major architectural monstrocity that stands in the Yard and the worst place in which to study in the University. But a stipulation in her contract with Harvard required that every Harvard undergraduate degree recipient know how to swim. ('Cliffe women, of course receive Harvard degrees.) And if you don't know how to swim when you get here, they...