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...magazine's biggest coup was landing Liddy's 5,500-word article, written in a Washington jail cell last July. Liddy has been the mum man of Watergate, responding only with silence to prosecutors, judges and journalists alike for over two years. He was so determined to remain mute that when he attended a writing course in prison, he insisted that his work not be published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unexpurgated Liddy | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...Harvard President Derek C. Bok, who instituted the 2.5-to-1 male-female ratio here and reportedly favors what administrators like to call "equal access" admissions, keeping mum on merger...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Corporate Merger: Not This Year, Anyway | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

That much of it amounts to one joke-and not an especially good one. The real star of the show-in fact, its only excuse- is George Rose, who plays Lynn's magnificently swishy lodger Henry, a middle-aged queen mum supervising her diet and her life. The play is full of Henry's preening, his outrageous, satiric gaiety, which has something quite likable about it. Rose, who looks here like a limp Morey Amsterdam, brings the fat farm drama alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Taking It Off | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...demerit. He was bounced from Los Angeles' most fashionable nightclub, the Troubadour, for ribald heckling of the Smothers Brothers. On the way out with his secretary May Pang, Lennon threw a right at Freelance Photographer Brenda Mary Perkins, who filed a complaint with the police. Lennon is uncharacteristically mum on the subject. Taking his lawyer's advice, he said: "No comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 25, 1974 | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...fact, Mrs. Frost was so convinced that New York Cover Girl Karen Graham was going to be her daughter-in-law that she gave her some of Son David Frost's favorite recipes. "He likes my lemon meringue pie very strong, tart and lemony," advised Mum. As it turned out, Frost, 34, never got a chance to try Karen's culinary skills. Just two days before they were to be married by Evangelist Billy Graham in a Manhattan ceremony, Karen slipped away to Chicago and married Las Vegas Investor Del Coleman, leaving Frost, whose engagement to Actress Diahann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 18, 1974 | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

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