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Some consider Fatal Attraction to have feminist overtones. Do you think it's a political film? Nicholas Wallerstein SPEARFISH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Glenn Close | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...dedicated to the proposition that eager -- and well-heeled -- investors can be found almost anywhere among the hills and dales of America. Jones' energetic corps of 1,273 brokers, who almost never set foot in towns with more than 25,000 people, has enjoyed solid success in outposts from Spearfish, S. Dak., to Broken Bow, Neb., that such big-time competitors as Dean Witter Reynolds and Merrill Lynch have virtually ignored. Based in the St. Louis suburb of Maryland Heights, Jones ranks just 43rd among brokerage firms in total capital ($82.5 million), but no investment company is represented in more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biggest Little Brokerage | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Smoldering Duff. As evacuees finally bedded down in nearby towns of Sturgis and Spearfish (S.D.) and Newcastle (Wyo.) and in hundreds of tourist cabins in the Black Hills, the fighters worked through the night. Twenty miles away, outside the town of Nemo, another fire raged. Said one fire boss grimly: "If them two sons of bitches come together and start crowning [i.e., spreading among the treetops], it won't stop till it gets to Custer, and we'll all look like Custer's men after the battle." At midmorning next day, the men were still fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH DAKOTA: Tales of Deadwood Gulch | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

JUSTUS J. CHAMPLIN Spearfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1952 | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

Sleep & Steak. If Notre Dame were starting the season against Spearfish Normal, Leahy would probably predict victory for Spearfish. But for once, this coachly gloom seemed to have some slight justification. Notre Dame's 1947 All-America Quarterback Johnny Lujack had graduated; the departure of Ziggie Czarobski and All-America George Connor had left holes at both tackles. (Gritted Leahy: "You can't lose boys like that without having to start over.") And Purdue's 1948 Boilermakers, though still the underdogs, were a long gasp from an opening-game breather. To many experts, they looked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leahy Carries On | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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