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Born on a farm near the Belgian border, rugged Philippe Lamour migrated to Paris as a young man, became a successful lawyer and politician. In 1940, along with other Parisians, he fled south ahead of the Nazi panzers. Lamour never went back. He stopped running in the Midi town of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Vive Lamour | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

> A small private plane collided with a two-engine Scandia transport flown by Brazil's Vasp Airlines in the crowded air corridor between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. All 27 aboard both planes were killed, their bodies strewn along more than two miles of rugged mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: The Ache & the Argument | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

Cats & Doctors. Somewhere along the line, Joan Baez' family became Quakers, but Joan herself is not a Friend. "Living is my religion," she says. She practices it currently on California's rugged coast. She has lived there for more than a year, including eight months in the Big...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Singing: Sibyl with Guitar | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

As students armed with firecrackers and cherry bombs continued to harass Meredith and the U.S. marshals who guard him. the teachers got bolder. Incensed at the constant uproar, sick at heart of students yelling "nigger bastard," faculty wives started a telephone chain, got 68 husbands to patrol the campus at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Can the Faculty Save Ole Miss? | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

In 1949, a year before he was graduated from Harvard, Lodge had a new, twenty-four-footer built. In this virtually open boat, he and Mrs. Lodge took their now almost legendary honeymoon voyage, during the summer between George's junior and senior years. The three-week cruise took the...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: George Lodge at Harvard | 11/3/1962 | See Source »

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