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...dying friend four years ago, William Roberts was struck by the grim isolation of the deathbed. "It seemed to me," he says, "that dying people were treated in a cold, almost cavalier manner." Suffering from diabetes, Roberts, now 50, quit his job a year ago as a partner at Spencer-Roberts, a California political public relations agency, and resolved to do something about the way people die. The result is Threshold, a new Los Angeles business that has trained and will supply "death companions" to help ease lonely, dying clients out of the world. The cost: $7.50 an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Death Companionship | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

...York, Reporter-Researchers Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and Sarah Button gleaned information on oil and the Middle East. Sequestered in an out-of-the-way office, Senior Editor Marshall Loeb then wrote the cover story, which was edited by Assistant Managing Editor Edward L. Jamieson. Associate Editor Spencer Davidson sketched Faisal the man, and Senior Writer Lance Morrow analyzed Man of the Year also-rans, including Nixon, Ford and Kissinger. Why were they also-rans? Because their actions over the past twelve months did not meet the criterion that determines TIME'S choice: the person who has most significantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 6, 1975 | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...Spencer I. Davidson

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The U.S. Should Soak Up That Shower of Gold | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

Rugged Terrain. That famous high-cheekboned face with its imperial, sloping mouth seems to defy much of the tragedy in her life. She played the other woman in a 20-year affair with the late Spencer Tracy, who remained married. Only nine months ago, Hepburn underwent hip surgery. "I don't believe in advertising aches and pains," she said. Instead, she invaded Wayne's rugged terrain, riding and shooting her way across Oregon for six weeks, despite not having been on a horse in 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Duke and Sister Kate Too | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...Water. After working long morning hours under a high desert sun Wayne would retire to his mobile-home dressing room for a siesta. Kate dunked herself in the icy water of a nearby mountain stream. "Spencer Tracy and John Ford also took lunchtime naps," she said. "My God, it must be exhausting being a strong man." Apparently it is not exhausting being Kate Hepburn. The grips, sound men and other technicians on the set have been doing Wayne pictures for years and are devoted to their man. Most of them display bumper stickers on their cars reading: GOD BLESS JOHN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Duke and Sister Kate Too | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

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