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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before he achieved celebrity status, Billy was a homebody whose idea of distant places was an occasional vacation in Florida's Walt Disney World with Sybil and the six kids (ages five months to 20 years). Now he travels as much to get out of Plains as to garner honorariums. Says Billy: "Hell, Plains is turning into a three-ring circus." So much so that Billy has been all but driven from his familiar haunts: a discarded school bus seat blocks access to the back room of the famous service station where he quaffs his afternoon beers, and nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 7, 1977 | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...ever a Briton was born and bred for success, it was Eden. The third son of Sybil and Sir William Eden, a country gentleman and master of hounds, Anthony Eden had a perfect pedigree for membership in the British ruling class: Sandroyd Preparatory School, Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he won first-class honors in Persian and Arabic and pulled a respectable oar. Before entering Oxford, young Anthony saw action in France with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the first World War; at the age of 20 he became a brigade major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Eden: The Loyal Adjutant | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...Wife Sybil, 38, to whom Billy has been married for 21 years, disputes his un-Christian image. "What nobody knows is that if Billy wants to go to church, he'll go to Americus [ten miles away] and go to church, and nobody knows anything about it." Billy is also a family man; the beer hour never prevents him from sitting down to dinner with Sybil and their six children, who range in age from three months to 20 years. He is also a bang-up businessman, who in the past six years has raised the gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Little Brother's Loss | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...Rich Man Poor Man" has been a big seller at the Hathaway store recently, along with "Sybil,"--a work that has experienced a marked increase in popularity since a TV series by the same name began this fall. Hale says he does not understand why students are buying these books, explaining "these are suburban house wife books and I am very surprised that students are buying them...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Goodbye Columbus, Hello Isolation | 12/16/1976 | See Source »

...reason is Texas Monthly's mix: a skilled blend of solid investigative articles, statewide consumer guides to shopping and shows, the clever graphics of Art Director Sybil Newman Broyles and paeans to such Texas institutions as cowboy boots, wildcat oil drillers, chicken fried steaks and the brothel "that slept more politicians than the Driskill Hotel and the Governor's mansion combined." In fact, keeping citified Texans in touch with their frontier heritage is one of TM's top missions. Says Editor William Broyles, 31: "Our goal is to locate, and glory in, the rough edges of Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/press: Cheeky TM | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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