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...hulking teen-ager stood by the shotput ring in his track suit, the muscles in his 17½-in. neck bulging, his 50-in. chest heaving in easy rhythm. Dallas Crutcher Long III spoke almost casually of distances never before achieved with the 16-lb. shot. "I should hit at least 66 feet by the end of the year." he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Long Put | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...began at the age of ten with a part in an ABC network soaper called Hawkins Falls, lasted 2½ years before she was tapped for Puppeteer Nellé's show. A miracle of poise on camera, the Blue Fairy is still a refreshingly down-to-earth teen-ager offstage. Celebrating the Peabody with her mother at Chicago's glossy Pump Room, Brigid downed two full dinners, including two bowls of whipped cream for dessert. The professional goodies are just starting. After the Peabody Award last week, the Blue Fairy is almost a sure bet for a network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Little Girl Blue | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...Poteet has been banished from Steve Canyon in part because of a distant tie to Lolita, many a reader who mixes some books with his comic strips is convinced that a teen-ager now raising temperatures in Dick Tracy (416 papers) is closely related, indeed, to the nimble nymphet. Slinky and scheming beyond her years, Popsie is fond of putting down her lollypop and bussing the cheek of Headache, a slot-machine maker who is not above bussing back. Cries Headache: "Owoo! That lollypop!" The very suggestion that Popsie and Lolita and Headache and Humbert are parallels draws howls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sisters Under the Skin? | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...Armstrong Circle Theater), and keeping her 5-ft.-5-in. frame down to a model-shapely 100 lbs. Daughter of a New York City leather-goods manufacturer, Sharry had emotional problems that sent her to a psychiatrist and may have helped her vivid portrayal of a disturbed teen-ager in The Case for Room 310. One morning last month, at her family's home in Hewlett Harbor, L.I., Sharry Rubin sought emotional satisfaction, probably for an unconscious need, by gorging herself. She put away the equivalent of three full meals, including a lot of meat. In midafternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Big Meal | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...sprinted up in time to hear the Negro boy say he would not get off the sidewalk. "I could see it building up in him," says McCarty. "I knew he was going to hit one of them." When the punch came, McCarty caught a memorable picture of a teen-ager exploding in a burst of rage expressive of a deep yearning for equality and civil rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Charlie Was There | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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