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...tough and unusually strong and could ride anything. More practically, she understood horses. In the '20s and again in the '50s and '60s, she was the pre-eminent race trainer in East Africa. She flew her own bush-taxi service for only a few years, in the '30s, but was a & fearless pilot who was the first to scout elephants commercially from the air, over country where a forced landing generally meant death. In 1936 she became the first person to fly solo from England to North America. Over Nova Scotia, a fuel line iced up, the engine died, caught...
Unlike most comedians, who are "on" only when performing, Cosby is naturally funny for much of his waking day. In his 20s and 30s, he was notorious for his smoldering anger; he bristled at interviewers and once decked Comedian Tommy Smothers at a Playboy mansion party. But with age and prosperity, "he got a lot calmer," says his younger brother Russell, 44, a Delta Air Lines service agent in Atlanta. Even today Bill can be pedantic or short-tempered, but most of the time he is simply fun to be around...
...baby boomers, cosmetic surgery has soared in popularity. Last year some half a million Americans were snipped, suctioned, stretched and trussed, compared with 300,000 in 1981. Once the province of aging screen stars and wealthy matrons, cosmetic surgery now attracts middle-class office workers, many in their 30s and 40s, and many of them men. Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon Richard Grossman describes the phenomenon as "another transition" for the restless Me generation: "They protested against the wars, and now they're protesting against the mirrors...
...woman "who felt she would feel better if she had an eye lift." Hoopes estimates that he and his colleagues reject about 25% of those seeking cosmetic surgery, often because they are too young. But New York Plastic Surgeon Gerald Imber encourages preventive surgery for clients in their 30s and 40s: "The results are better when the raw materials are fresher." Indeed, so many eager candidates are intent on preserving their youthful looks that crow's-feet and turkey gullets may soon become endangered species...
...while denying her even a mirror because it might make her vain. Yet Duke, 40, forgives them because they also made her an actress -- the craft that sustained her through four marriages, unwed motherhood and repeated suicide attempts triggered by manic-depressive illness that remained undiagnosed until her middle 30s. She looks back not in anger or self-pity but with generosity of spirit...