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...Little League coach and gas- station attendant. He majored in English, minored in dramatics, marched for peace, voted Republican for the last time in 1968 ("I believed Nixon when he said he'd get us out of Viet Nam"), and met his future wife, a woman whose unlikely name, Tabitha Spruce, seems to have been plucked from a Stephen King coven. She remembers him as an imposing figure, a "campus institution" who wrote a weekly column called "King's Garbage Truck" for the school newspaper. Recalls Stephen: "Tabby looked like a waitress. She came across -- and still does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Horror | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

King, 36, his wife Tabitha and three children divide their time between a 23-room Bangor mansion and a summer place in the foothills of the White Mountains. His houses bear a few traces of his ghoulish trade - like a collection of two dozen grotesque masks, many of them sent by fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Giving Hollywood the Chills | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

...that have invaded the communal memory. But King takes them dead seriously, and so, evidently, do his millions of readers. A devoted child of the audiovisual age, the millionaire author still likes to get up in the morning and switch on rock 'n' roll. King, his wife Tabitha and their three children alternate between an airy modern house in a Maine village and a 23-room Victorian extravaganza in Bangor. Wherever he happens to be, King compulsively churns out 1,500 words a day, just as he has done since the late 1960s, when he was an English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of Postliterate Prose | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

Clad in gay robes and conical straw hats, hard-riding Basuto tribesmen last week poured into their hilltop capital of Maseru. The joyous occasion: the royal marriage in the Roman Catholic cathedral of Our Lady of Victories between a serene young student named Tabitha Masentle Mojela and Basutoland's Paramount Chief, Oxford-educated Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II, who ascended the throne of the British protectorate in 1960 after a tough fight with his stepmother, who had acted as regent for 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basutoland: A Whinny for the Chief | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...Fearful Joy, by Joyce Gary. The life & times of Tabitha Baskett; a new novel by an Englishman who writes in the old meat-and-marrow tradition of English fiction (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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