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...then so does his buddy Frank Sinatra, 47. This time the two wound up their nip-tucking session at a West Side Manhattan joint. 'Long about 2 a.m. "Sinat" suddenly awarded his 240-lb. pal a few friendly shoulder smacks and a greeting: "Hi ya, Blub." Silence. Then, slowly, The Blub toppled backwards off his perch. "I don't really remember what happened," confesses Toots. But his right wrist broke the fall, then broke itself. Though plastered into a cast for six weeks (complete with evening scarf sling), Toots stiffly states: "Booze is beautiful-with either hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 18, 1963 | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

Warmth from a Light Blub. Meanwhile, as he "lived like an animal wallowing around in dirt and filth," the Chinese subjected him to endlessly repeated accusations and endless hints that it would be easy to kill him. Bit by bit he wrote what the Chinese wanted (as one reward they allowed him to warm his hands on a light bulb). "The hardest thing I have to explain," he said, "is how a man can sit down and write something he knows is false and yet to sense it, to feel it, to make it seem real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Dreadful Dilemma | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...didn't like him, and besides, a scepter was already tapping at her door. Poet John Dryden has described some of the charms that caught the royal eye: "Oval face, clear skin, hazel eyes, thick brown eyebrows ... a full nether lip ... the bottom of your cheeks a little blub, and two dimples when you smile." Add to that a firm, small, voluptuous figure. Charles II took her home with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Darling Strumpet | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...persons of both colors elbowed in. They bought programs, contributed to a collection. Stocky, gold-toothed and grey-haired, Elder Michaux introduced himself as "The 'Happy Am I' preacher," launched into a sermon praising President Roosevelt. ''The President," said he, "sponsored the NRA BlUb Eagle. I sponsor the NRA White Eagle. The difference is that the first stands for National Recovery Administration while mine stands for National Revival Administration. Any doctor will tell you that you can't have recovery without revival. The same is true of our country.'' The audience cried "Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Happy Am I | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...Converse, Sp., is a member of the freshman Banjo blub...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/11/1889 | See Source »

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