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Died. Margaret Alice Murray, 100, Egyptologist and demonologist, a wispy spinster (4 ft. 6 in.) who in 1904 at Abydos on the Nile was the first woman archaeologist to conduct her own "digs," went tenting with Bedouins at 70, finally "retired" to lecture on sorcery in England, where she held...
Red China is also wooing its yellow and brown brothers in the Asian Communist parties, with considerable success in Japan, Ceylon and, of all places, New Zealand. North Viet Nam's wispy leader, Ho Chi Minh, is ambiguous about his loyalties, but must reflect that Red China is next...
In this picture, adapted from the drama that in 1960 was selected as Broadway's best, Playwright Hellman returns to the Southern scene of her greatest triumph (The Little Foxes) and to the theme that has attached her deepest energies: the fateful antinomy of power and love. Her leading...
Historical novelists who use lowly characters to eyewitness the past customarily keep them close to the great captains-as, say, a cabin boy on the Santa Maria or a drummer dragged along in the wake of Napoleon's march to Moscow. But the wispy, aging English heiress who calls...
Beauty in Ugliness. Today Dix lives on the idyllic, alpine shore of Lake Constance in a house whose walls shelter the bulk of his works. "I considered them so important that I didn't want to sell them," he explains. At 72. wispy, wiry Dix no longer paints. "I...