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Perhaps I reveal my own anxiety in reflecting my pleasure at finding an appraisal of the American scene that agrees with my own observations. It is good to find confirmation of my own prejudices and feelings in a quarter as significant as that of TIME. (THE REV.) C. EUGENE SILL Hillcrest Congregational Church Pleasant Hill, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 21, 1961 | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...ancient Citroën, parked in front of the Beau-Rivage. Blanc leaped out of bed and ran for a phone in a ground floor office-just as the bombers had expected. Fifteen seconds after the first bomb, a second and larger one exploded on the window sill of the office, blowing off Blanc's shoulder and part of his face. "They got me," he gasped and 15 minutes later he died. Who were "they"? Presumably right-wingers who want no parleying with the F.L.N...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Baptism at Evian | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

Hollywood's Jack Warner saw the movie and brought the beautiful young man to Hollywood, where he promptly came to the attention of Lili Damita, a star of second magnitude who earned his admiration with her "glorious boudoir art." One night Lili stood on a window sill and threatened to jump if Flynn refused to make an honest woman of her. Flynn gave in, made a $2 deposit on a venture that cost him more than $1,000,000 in alimony before he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: 14,001 Nights | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

Holy Cross. It took gruff, brilliant Misogynist Sill 34 years to consent to Kent's first dance. At another dance, Father Sill himself played the fiddle-interrupting himself periodically to give overexuberant couples a smart rap with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Breaking Ground | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Last week Kent's mission ("to produce soundly educated Christian citizens") was expanded in a way that would almost surely have left Father Sill blinking. On a bucolic, 600-acre farm a mere five miles and one mountain away from the Kent campus, groundbreaking ceremonies were held for a new girls' annex. By autumn of 1960, the first 100 girls (aged 14 to 15) will join Kent's 292 boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Breaking Ground | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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