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Representative Wayne Hays, 68, Ohio Democrat and chairman of the House Administration Committee, was investigated by the House Ethics Committee and the Justice Department on charges of financial improprieties as well as keeping his mistress, Elizabeth Ray, on his official payroll. He resigned in September 1976. June 1976. Representative Henry Helstoski, 54, New Jersey Democrat, was indicted for taking bribes from Chilean and Argentine aliens to introduce bills blocking their deportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rogues' Gallery | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

Instead, Karmal, a 50-year-old bachelor, went into hiding with other members of the Parcham group. Among them was his longtime mistress, Anahita Ratebzad, who had been packed off as Ambassador to Yugoslavia. When Taraki was overthrown-and killed-by Hafizullah Amin last September, Karmal was still underground. Diplomats speculated that the Soviets stashed him away in an Eastern European capital as a sort of strongman-in-reserve. As one expert puts it, "The Russians were keeping [him] on ice until [he was] needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Moscow's New Stand-in | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

...went to Orléans for training. He eventually concluded that all lawyers are frauds and decided to become a legitimate fraud, which is to say an actor. He changed Poquelin to Moliére and fell in with a theatrical family, the Béjarts. With his mistress, Madeleine Béjart, he formed a company that toured the provinces for the next 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Hollow French Confection | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Joyce Grenfell, 69, lanky, toothy British comedienne known for her hilarious one-woman shows and film portrayals of such dotty spinsters as the policewoman who poses as a girls' school sports mistress in the 1954 farce The Belles of St. Trinian 's; of cancer; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 10, 1979 | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Modigliani has both a sensual solace and a fiery challenge in his English mistress and nude model, Beatrice Hastings. Mary-Joan Negro plays this role with such formidable passion and intelligence as to conjure up Goethe's "eternal feminine" as the root impulse of creation. Wisely, touchingly, Playwright Dennis Mclntyre treats of the artist's self-arming ego and his nightmares of self-doubt. In the title role, Jeffrey de Munn is protean, a mercurial mixture of earth, air, fire and water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Art Bums | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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