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...thought I was due for a pleasant film experience,"says Candice Bergen, who was last seen slugging it out with Giancarlo Giannini in Italian Director Lina Wertmuller's feminist treatise The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain. This time the title is a cinch-Oliver's Story. A continuation of Love Story, it also stars Ryan O'Neal, who falls in love with Marcie Bonwit, an executive in her family's department store. Alas, Oliver and Marcie do not wind up together. "She's a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 15, 1978 | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...predecessor of the CIA, and, elevated to major, directed the dropping of agents all over Europe. He was later awarded four Bronze Stars. In 1945 he came home to Mary, their two children, Catherine, 9, and Timothy, 3, and a relaxed life of horses and pleasant conversation. After one fox hunt in the fall of 1946, however, Mary, who was in fact allergic to horses, suffered a violent asthmatic attack. Her heart strained beyond endurance, she died before nightfall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Portrait of the Donor | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

Outlined against a grey-grey April sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. They are only aliases. Their real names are known only to Cuz Mingolla, impresario of the Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts. These four formed the crest of the Pleasant Valley greens-keeping cyclone before which another fighting Harvard golf team was swept over the precipice at the hilly, 6,700-yard wash-board road-test masquerading as a golf links yesterday afternoon as the spectators--a wayward orienteering expedition, a Japanese agronomist...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Dead Solid Tragic | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

Junior Ron Himelman, despondent over an early morning report that he shot a 68 on a recent hourly, revived his spirits with a solid Group II effort on his Pleasant Valley scorecard: 87 strokes. Junior Spence Fitzgibbons, ailing under the delusion that he is the incarnation of the infamous Dr. Wadi Haddad of Terror International, died once again as he soared to what is a nice temperature in the Iraqi desert--85. Sophomore Jim Dales chattered his way through a four-putt green and an 82. Senior Dave Paxton played a near impeccable front nine, then rose to the occasion...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Dead Solid Tragic | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

...pleasant sight: Harvard's President Derek C. Bok, stalking tight-lipped through the Yard, followed by at least 75 chanting students who would not leave the poor man alone--through the Yard, across Mass Ave, down a block, across the street again, and finally, as he tried to get away in a siren-shrill police...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: A Siege Mentality | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

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