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Even though the rest of the cast isn't quite up to the level of the three most important characters, they don't interfere much. Bruhl's wife Myra (Anne Higgins) is a factor only in the first act: Myra is suitably awkward when Anderson arrives and she ridiculously fears...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Mind Games | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

The first U.S. newsman to enter Paris, TIME'S Chief War Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker, entered the city through the Porte d'Orleans at 9:40 a.m., Friday, Aug. 25. His report:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News 1944: The Day June 6, 1944 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

In at least 37 states, some highways were becoming unsafe at any speed. In La Porte, Ind., a sniper fired at an 18-wheeler, missed, and hit Schoolteacher Chris Balawender, 35, in the hip while he was driving a van loaded with eleven children. He managed to keep the vehicle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Low Road to Protest | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

The Secret Service wants to expedite the daily flow of visitors through the security check. They also want to put unsightly security equipment under one roof and conceal it as much as possible. The only practical alternative to the planned new gatehouse was to enclose the portico or porte-cochere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: A New White House Entrance | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

Hayes was one of the speakers at Harvard's Sanders Theater last week, as Emersonians observed the 100th anniversary of Emerson's death. It has been an important year in the Emerson business. Last fall arrived Gay Wilson Allen's handsome biography, Waldo Emerson (Viking, $25). The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Bishop of Our Possibilities | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

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