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...seduces the daughter of the town surgeon, who takes revenge by amputating both of the youth's legs. The horrible moment of self-discovery made a deep impression on Reagan. The day the scene was shot he clambered onto the sickbed, which had a hole cut in the mattress to hide his legs. "I spent almost that whole hour in stiff confinement," Reagan said. "Gradually the affair began to terrify me. In some weird way, I felt something horrible had happened to my body." When shooting began, Reagan recalled, "I opened my eyes dazedly, looked around, slowly let my gaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The All-American President: Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

...comply with zoning laws, a mattress currently located in the building—a sign that someone may have been living there—will have to be removed. The Advocate, which is zoned as a business, cannot permit students to live in the building, McLoughlin says...

Author: By Patrick M. Mckee and Joshua P. Rogers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Advocate Faces College Pressure | 5/4/2004 | See Source »

...cornerstone beliefs of the African-American church." But she believes in some other things too. Some years back, sitting in a seminary class, she had a flashback. She was a girl again, and her mother had just been murdered by her boyfriend. Once more Terrell saw the blood-soaked mattress and her mother's bloody handprint on the wall. And suddenly, "I had to find a connection between my mom's story and my story and Jesus' story," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Why Did Jesus Die? | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...protesters held teddy bears and heart shaped signs in front of their bodies and staged a pillow fight on a mattress outside the Harvard T station, all while chanting, “Love...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PETA Protest Ends in 6 Arrests | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

...hatboxes, in shoes and, yes, under the mattress, millions of women hide money from their husbands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Table of Contents: Mar. 1, 2004 | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

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