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...deprived of his future, a dying person concentrates his vital energy on recapturing what was precious to him in the past. Describing his personal experience, Heim wrote: "I saw myself as a seven-year-old boy going to school, then in the fourth-grade classroom with my beloved teacher Weisz. I acted out my life as though I were on a stage upon which I looked down from the highest gallery in the theatre...My sisters and especially my wonderful mother, who was so important in my life, were around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Pleasures of Dying | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...Stanford University, several participants advocated registration of all guns-if only, said one, to "see if this reduces crime or death rates." Other preventive measures were linked to the predictability of assassin types. Drs. Robert L. Taylor and Alfred E. Weisz noted that of the nine men involved in the eight known attempts on the lives of American Presidents, all were Caucasian males aged 24 to 40. All were smaller than average in stature. All were unknowns, except John Wilkes Booth. Most importantly, "each of these men had some cause or grievance that appeared obsessional, if not delusional, in intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assassinations: A Warning Five Years Later | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

Died. Victor Weisz, 52, Britain's acerb political cartoonist "Vicky," an aggressive socialist who over 25 years leveled his pen at everyone on his right from John Foster Dulles, whom he showed brandishing H-bombs, to Tory Harold Macmillan, whom he drew as the winged "Supermac," and Charles de Gaulle, whom he captioned with the famed inverted quotation, "Après le déluge-moil"; of as yet undetermined causes; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 4, 1966 | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...tepid as the beer, one of Fleet Street's most successful wits today is a waspish foreigner known as Vicky. As six-days-a-week political cartoonist for the Laborite Daily Mirror (circ. 4,649,-696), world's biggest daily, German-born Vicky (real name: Victor Weisz) has built the largest following of any British cartoonist since David Low at his wartime peak. While he has not as yet won Low's fame, most Fleet Streeters agree that Vicky is Britain's top cartoonist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mocksman of the Mirror | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Raymond D. Gastil of Alpine, California and Adams House, majoring in Social Relations; Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. of Columbus, Ohio and Leverett House, majoring in Government; Joseph V. Messer of Watertown, South Dakota and Lowell House, majoring in Biological Science; George Weisz of Brooklyn, New York and Kirkland House, majoring in Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Elects Eight Juniors at University | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

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