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But for sheer macabre finesse the honors would undoubtedly fall to one Lowell House student. One crisp winter day not many years ago he tied one end of a wire around his neck and the other to a radiator beneath his fourth story window. When he jumped, the wire snapped...

Author: By Rudolf V. Ganz jr., | Title: Short Journal of Harvard Crime | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

Frost still silvered the trees on Strasbourg's Avenue de la Paix last week as Charles de Gaulle stood up and peeled off his khaki greatcoat. Before 2,800 officers summoned from Algeria, Germany and France, he launched into a sonorous speech commemorating the 17th anniversary of Strasbourg'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Army Disease | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

But in the fields south of Ltibeck, the double barbed wire resumes, and it is no slipshod affair. Cement pylons are sunk 5 ft. into the ground and stand slightly over 6 ft. above it. Each pylon is threaded with seven strands of wire. Along the border a tractor equipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cold War: Death Strip | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

And faces were always his specialty. A John portrait began slowly, with a great deal of staring, circling about and staccato grunting. But once John had a grasp of his subject, the portrait would form almost on its own. Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Hardy and Yeats, lord mayors, marchese, duchesses, generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Inspired Innocent | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

Tall and rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.), "Old Stoneface" Hutchinson has the shoulders of a longshoreman and a face that might have been sculpted by Modigliani. He has been known to terrify rookie ballplayers merely by staring at them, and his temper tantrums are monumental: enraged by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Stoneface & the Major | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

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