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Every couple of years, Dolores Perez Priem, 66, who was widowed 25 years ago, takes a break from her hectic, 14-hour workdays as the owner of a medical-transcription company in San Francisco and embarks on a solitary ramble in a foreign land. This year she's off to northern Europe to look at paintings by Van Gogh and the Dutch masters. "I don't know anyone who would want to spend as much time as I do in a museum looking at these paintings," she says. "And at this point in my life, I want to indulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Going Solo | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

Champ. In Maastricht, The Netherlands, Dutch Motorcyclist Priem Rozen-berg, 1952 winner of a trophy as best all-round Dutch motorcyclist, five-time member of the Dutch six-day motorcycle team, three-time winner of the Monaco motorcycle trophy, revealed that he had never earned a cyclist's license, finally took his driver's test and failed when he forgot to look back before turning left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...sign in the Liquor & Tobacco Shop in Moscow [News in Pictures - Oct. IQ] also reads Priem posudy proisvoditsa vo dvore, which, freely translated, means that the "empties are picked up in the backyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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