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...cleanest houses in North Dakota." Others, especially those who own property in the flood plain, are less excited about the emergency. "If you sell your house in the valley, you're not going to make enough to buy one on the hill," said Mrs. Verna Hammer, who has taken up residence in a local school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Waiting for the Mouse | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...Verna C. Johnson, executive associate to Dean Rosovsky, said yesterday, "She is going to be chairman--there's no mystery about...

Author: By Julie Wilson, | Title: Woman Will Head Music Department | 3/6/1976 | See Source »

...proposal never actually happened, but the story is indicative of the way Dunlop works. Verna Johnson, the durable administrative assitant to the dean of the Faculty, calls him a "mediator": "He would seek ways of getting at a solution by talking at great length, endlessly. I think he worked best sitting down and talking with people. And I'm sure he could outlast most people...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: The Old Negotiator Comes Home | 1/16/1976 | See Source »

...edited by Spielberg and the remarkable Verna Fields (who also cut American Graffiti and The Last Picture Show), everything finally paid off. "If you look carefully," Fields points out, "you will see blue sky in one segment of a scene, cloudy sky in another, choppy seas in one scene, glassy in another." No one will feel detached enough to notice. The movie moves like gang busters, so fast that none of the mismatches really show. Even Bruce looks like a star. "Except when he heaved himself out of the water-when he had a plastic look -I was quite surprised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUMMER OF THE SHARK | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

...Bayou Legend reveals him as a kind of American Grieg -a miniaturist gifted with melody, an unerring sense of color and a fondness for the folklore. Although the performers in Jackson were all black, Legend is not especially a black opera, as the composer and his librettist wife Verna Arvey are the first to point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in Mississippi | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

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