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...Appear in My Next Novel could easily turn out to be a misnomer. If the title is accurate, it would be good news, for Author Cheever is in danger of getting bogged down in his talent-lined rut. He promises in the future to drop "all lushes," but The Scarlet Moving Van is the story of the handsome All-America football star who is so frightened by life that he turns to the jug and throws away the stopper. His Brimmer is another charming lush whose great wastes of emptiness can be filled in only with the help of alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Man's Hell | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...years. Last year end coach Alex Bell left Harvard to become head football mentor at Villanova. (Although Bell was faced with an almost hopeless situation at Villanova, and understandably ended up with a 2-7 record last fall, he coached the Wildcats to a victory over Rutgers--the Scarlet Knight's only loss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Line Coach Schmitt Will Leave, Join Football Staff of Redmen | 1/30/1961 | See Source »

...should have used her influence to make Pasternak follow the official line in Doctor Zhivago. Fearing that Olga might be made scapegoat for his doctrinal errors, Pasternak wrote friends in Paris: "If, God forbid, they should arrest Olga, I will send you a telegram saying someone has caught scarlet fever. In that event all tocsins should be made to ring, just as would have been done in my case, for an attack on her is, in fact, a blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Lost Lady | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

Here, on the Feast of the Annunciation in 1679, "the Lily of the Mohawks" consecrated her virginity to God and, in tribute to the Virgin Mary, whose color is blue, she changed her customary scarlet blanket for a blue one. Until the missionaries stopped her, Kateri went to Indian extremes of asceticism-lashing and branding herself, walking barefoot in the snow, putting hot embers between her toes and sleeping in brambles. She was soon venerated by her fellow Christian Indians as a living saint, and when she died at 24, they tore up her clothes for relics. Ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Lily of the Mohawks | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...Rome's St. Peter's Basilica four new princes of the church, clad in magnificent scarlet robes, knelt last week to receive from Pope John their red hats, symbolic of their elevation to the College of Cardinals. Besides their rank and faith, the new cardinals had something else in common: the same tailor. Every stitch of their elaborate garments, from scarlet silk stockings to matching skullcap, came from Bonaventura Gammarelli, 61, the most prestigious name in the Roman Catholic cloak and soutane trade. From his small shop in the shadow of Rome's ancient Pantheon, Gammarelli sends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Abroad: The Cloak & Soutane Trade | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

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