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MARRIED. MATTHEW BRODERICK, 34, winsomely boyish actor, and current Broadway princess (in Once Upon a Mattress) SARAH JESSICA PARKER, 32; secretly, at a New York City synagogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 2, 1997 | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...when I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we assumed that "no frills" was the part of college education that toughened you up for the future. A hard mattress, no pillow, a 40-watt bulb, concrete floors, a muddy campus, hobnail boots and highly committed but probably underpaid teachers all contributed to making tuition $180, half a room $29 and meals at Swain Hall $126 for the year. That was the normal road to Phi Beta Kappa. EDWARD RONDTHALER Croton-on-Hudson, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 7, 1997 | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

Early yesterday morning, as blossoming crocuses and daffodils were being covered with a mattress of spring snow, the stalwarts of Harvard Square's late night culture were running at full bore...

Author: By Richard M. Burns, | Title: Night Owls Flock To 24-Hour Haunts | 4/2/1997 | See Source »

...short trip to the Lincoln Bedroom. The funny thing, of course, is that Lincoln never slept there. That room served as his study. And because of a renovation ordered by Harry Truman that demolished the interior of the White House, even the walls are 20th century. The mattress is no treat; the furniture is lugubrious Victorian; and for good measure the place is supposed to be haunted. Winston Churchill is said to have sighted Lincoln's ghost. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands reported an ectoplasm in a stovepipe hat. Bill Clinton thought he saw some easy dollars. He must have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEP RIGHT UP | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...EDUCATION: Duke U, A.B., 1981; U of Virginia, J.D., 1984 FAMILY: Wife, Mary Anne; five children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 361, Greenville 29602. Tel.: 864-421-9696 Inglis, who's courting South Carolina legend by sleeping on an air mattress in his congressional office, approaches "right-sizing" the Federal Government with monastic dedication. For the nation's good, he's against pork-barrel spending and furthers his political zeal as co-chairman of the Term Limits National Campaign. In keeping with that duty, 1996 would be his last term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: SOUTH CAROLINA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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