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...cares not. Says Duskin: "You can't lock girls up at 10:30 p.m. and expect them to understand The Republic." The only athletic endeavor is judo, "a thing of being concerned with your body and what it does." The judo squad calls itself the Transcendentalists, and its motto is: "It's not whether you can win or lose, but whether you can rise above the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kookie College | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...cast Cassel as a sort of Don Juan in diapers. He plays the younger son in a cheery Charles Addams family that inhabits a large, sunny, 19th century cobweb littered with charming bits of bric-a-brac and squalling testimonials to the efficacy of the hero's family motto: "Fructify!" The family lives in a dream world all its own, posing for imaginary deathbed scenes of famous men. playing baroque quintets in the evening, avidly at all times hankering after news of the hero's latest fructifications. For the first half-hour the dream world has its humors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Messy Mnages | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...center of this Vicksburg-on-Avon, Troilus himself was a Confederate lieutenant, and his faithless little old Cressida's motto seemed to be: More scarlet than thou, O'Hara. Pandarus oleoed between the lovers, with slicked-down hair and a Burgundy dressing gown, and made his last exit carrying a carpetbag. "As I worked on the play," explains Stratford Director Jack Landau, "it became clear to me that the division was not one country against another, one part of society against another. It's a culture divided against itself-in effect, a civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Straw Hat: Vicksburg-on-Avon | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...interdormitory council. Last summer he worked hard to nominate Lyndon Johnson for President in Los Angeles, where he organized Johnson's uproarious airport welcome. This summer, Fulbright Scholar Grimsley heads for Bogota's University of the Andes to study Colombia's political system. His motto: "Not to make millions, but to make millions safe and happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top of the Heap | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

Died. Melvin Jones. 82, hearty, back-slapping founder of Lions International and its longtime secretary-general, who helped make the Lions the world's largest service-club association with 625,539 members in 112 nations united under the motto "We Serve" and the theme song Roar, Lion, Roar; after a series of strokes; in Flossmoor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 9, 1961 | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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