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HARVARD: PLAYING PENPAL...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Colleges Alter Application Processes | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...obvious from his later correspondence that she had despaired of any future with him. Within a short time she married a successful German businessman. For Kafka, such a conclusion had probably been clear from the beginning. By marrying he would not be gaining a wife but losing a penpal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Post Office | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...moon-faced Space Man Donald Farrell, 23, of The Bronx, turned out to have an ex-bride and a 4½-year-old daughter. To Farrell, his feet barely steady after an imaginative seven-day excursion through space (in a grounded chamber in Texas), the revelation meant that his penpal romance with a Niagara Falls secretary was "up in the air." An expert on more earthly pleasures, bestselling Novelist Grace Metalious, 33, popped into an Alabama court, picked up a quickie divorce from husband George, three days later married her longtime friend, ex-Disk Jockey Thomas Martin, 33. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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