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...could stand there barefoot without freezing to the rock. The apostles wore thermal underwear and sweat pants under their robes. Killing time, Martha of Bethany sat in the lap of the Apostle Philip while he read Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Pledge and she read John Updike's Rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Forget the incense | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...sure, Robin, a canary, died. Tom Kitten, a cat, was given away and died thereafter. A rabbit, presented to the President with the claim that he could play a trumpet, apparently went off on a toot and has not been seen in months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Home Notes | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...their first American school, but Moses and Raphael Soyer were accomplished in another kind of language that quickly endeared them to their teachers. Whenever a holiday approached, they were set to work decorating the halls and classrooms, for no one else in the school could paint a livelier Easter rabbit, a jollier Santa Claus or a spookier Halloween witch than the Soyer boys. Today, at 62, the twins-as well as their younger brother Isaac-are noted artists whose quiet and moody paintings change little but never date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Talk in a Low Voice | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

Died. Howard Roger Garis, 89, creator of a kindly, top-hatted rabbit named Uncle Wiggily as an extra assignment from his police beat on the Newark (N.J.) Evening News in 1909, who went on to write 200 children's books of the bunny's adventures in Hollow Stump with Fuzzy Wuzzy Nurse Jane and Dr. Possum that sold more than 5,000,000 copies; of leukemia; in Northampton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 16, 1962 | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

...Benchley, Drew Pearson. Andover's are Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Lardner, Quentin Reynolds, John Home Burns, James Ramsay Ullman and the much-read Dr. Benjamin Spock. Most famous nongrad is Andover's Humphrey Bogart, who got the boot for "incontrollably high spirits" (he dunked a teacher in Rabbit Pond) and spent his life boasting about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Well Begun Is Half Done | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

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