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...defends its role. "When we bought the special," says a spokeswoman, "it was as an entertainment special, not a documentary." Says Sun International executive producer Charles E. Sellier: "We just presented a variety of people saying the different things they knew about Noah's ark." That excuse will hardly mollify discriminating TV viewers. And it will not defuse the anger of archaeologists like Richard Fox, of the University of South Dakota. Writing in the current edition of Free Inquiry, a secular humanist publication, Fox charges, "The program abused my profession and insulted its practitioners. And CBS is responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phony Arkaeology | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

Revival of the Fittest. In Paris, Leon Sellier, in a fit of pique, flung his girl friend out his fourth-floor apartment window, landed in the hospital with cuts and bruises after she bounced off a canvas awning, ran back upstairs, cracked him on the head with a wine bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...Corporal Sellier pursed his lips, pressed a bugle against them and sounded the call for which the world had waited too long, "Cease fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bugle | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Marshal Foch attended the ceremony of placing the bugle in its case. With him came General Gouraud, now Military Governor of Paris. To them came bugler Corporal Sellier. Upon his chest the one-armed General Gouraud pinned the Croix de Guerre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bugle | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

President, "Red Emperor Zinoviev." Representatives for the following countries: Russia, Trotzky, Stalin, Bucharin; Germany, Broun, Gebhardt; France, Train, Sellier; Italy, Bordigha; Czecho-Slovakia, Shmeral, Muna; Scandinavian countries, Sheflo; Balkan countries, Kolarov; Poland, Kraevski; Japan, Katayama; India, Roy; Britain, Stewart; U. S., Dann; Independent, Klara Zetkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: International Communism | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

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