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...Secretary of Health and Human Services, to speak at its annual meeting two weekends ago. Then, without much warning, the invitation was revoked. It seems that Sullivan's anti-cigarette stance didn't sit well with R.J. Reynolds and the Tobacco Institute, two sponsors of the gathering at Pinehurst, N.C. Sullivan had dedicated just one line of his remarks to antismoking efforts, but this apparently was still too much for the association and its supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sorry, Nonsmoking Strictly Prohibited | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...room. What is more, the Houdini contacted by Monroe bungled the answers to questions posed by members of the inner circle. "What was your favorite dessert?" Marie Blood, the great magician's niece, wanted to know. "Strawberry," gasped Monroe. "Wrong," chided Mrs. Blood, who traveled all the way from Pinehurst, N.C., for the occasion. "It was bread pudding," she informed the audience, "with Bing cherries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wisconsin: a Magic Spirit | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...narrative technique. The Optimist's Daughter, 1972, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This year, a year that seems to be her year, she is on the bestseller lists with One Writer's Beginnings. The sun is indeed shining bright on her old Jackson home, on Pinehurst Street, where she was saying the other morning, "Do sit down. I'm going to raise a window." She said she was wondering whether she might not have sounded incoherent at a late hour the night before, when she was called on to respond to some of the papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mississippi: A Diamond Jubilee | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...lowed individual players, as well as the winning team from each division, usually play in the NCAA finals held at Pinehurst, N.C. this year Holy Cross won the Newy England Division I tournament, relegating URI to second place I tournament, relegating URI to second place Lowenstein, who also made All-Ivy by finishing second in the Ivy League Tournament held at Yale April 24 and 25th, said he "should be invited" to play in the finals, which will be confirmed after Monday's NCAA directors' meeting...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Golfers Post Win Over MIT, Northeastern; Co-Captain Lowenstein Heads for Nationals | 5/7/1982 | See Source »

...When Pizarro and his fellow Christians took over the empire, one of their first acts was to make coca chewing available to the whole populace. The result was that there was no effort to resist or overthrow the Spaniards because of the lethargy the drug produced. Gordon H. Dalton Pinehurst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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