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My Sister in This House by Wendy Kesselman had its genesis in a famous French murder case that inspired Jean Genet's The Maids. In 1933, in Le Mans, Léa and Christine Papin killed their employer, Mme. Lancelin, and her daughter. Kesselman has retained the names of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Kentucky Derby | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

After taking a telephone call from a well-wisher at the Le Mans race track, he could have said, "That was Mother." But it would not have had quite the same cachet, so Mark Thatcher, 26, announced, "That was the Prime Minister." Midway into the grueling 24-hr, sports car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 30, 1980 | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

SEATTLE MARINERS: The Mariners are moving along nicely for an ex- pansion team and by acquiring starter Jim Beattie, they finally found a leader for the pitching staff. Ageless Willie Horton mans the DH role.

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: BASEBALL | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

The center was founded in 1978 by its present president, Philosopher Charles Frankel, with a $625,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Bennett must regularly remind himself, "What are we doing for the public?" Sometimes he is part of the response. A Harvard Law School graduate, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Corn Bread and Great Ideas | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

TIME Reporter Tim Miller tested the hot lines by making informal calls to all three colleges. Emporia State and Arkansas, but not Johnson County, corrected his run-on sentence ("Enrollments will continue to decline, no change in the pattern is in sight") and his incorrect use of "less" for "fewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Grammarphone | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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