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...Melvin H. Chalfin, Cambridge public health commissioner, said the plant would not necessarily pose a health hazard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toxic Solvent Plant at Issue In Somerville | 10/6/1981 | See Source »

...ground outside Morgan City, La. Abbott offered no resistance and said little until told that Belly had become a literary hit. Said Morgan City Detective Bob Bazet: "When he heard that, he really picked up." "As an entertainer, I'd like to be known just as Melvin Dum-mar-without Howard Hughes," says the former gas-station owner from Cedar City, Utah. Dummar, 37, vaulted out of obscurity after he claimed that in 1967 he befriended a haggard hitchhiker in the Nevada desert, who later turned out to be the eccentric megamillionaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 5, 1981 | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...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 »

...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 »

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