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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life. It is strangely fitting that her last major stroke occurred while she was dancing at a party in her madhouse, thus earning herself her own brave and touching epitaph: "I have never yet enjoyed a day, but I have never stopped trying to happiness." arrange for - By Melvin Maddocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fragments of a Gentle Despair | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Melvin Maddocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: Storytellers Cast Their Ancient Spell | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...gross national product. Top big-city law firms like Chicago's Reuben & Proctor currently bill clients as much as $200 an hour, up from a high of $150 in 1975. Superstar trial lawyers like Boston's F. Lee Bailey and San Francisco's Melvin Belli regularly command flat fees that work out to as much as $300 an hour. New York's Louis Nizer, whose clients have included Blacklist Victim John Henry Faulk and major corporations in the film industry, commands a phenomenal $350 an hour, thus earning the equivalent of the nation's median...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Fat Fees | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...underestimated the evil in unregenerate man," Malone concludes. But as a remarkably cheerful old man, Malone, himself now 89, cannot condemn Jefferson for so noble, so American a fault. -Melvin Maddocks

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ever Optimistic | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...life to be bully, went out on horseback in the morning, with his latest glasses and his latest shotgun, and fired away at everything living. McCullough scrupulously follows his subject. But because of Teddy's determined blindness of heart, he cannot love him or quite forgive him. -By Melvin Maddocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Foolish Grit | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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