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Marilyn Pitzele, Harvard's Rosemary Harris, at first fascinated you with her acting tricks -- she walked in a funny bowlegged waddle, she talked in an impeccable lower class accent, and she wept like a little girl who wanted attention very badly. But her performance was so consistent and thoroughly thought...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, AT ADAMS HOUSE LAST WEEKEND | Title: Entertaining Mr. Sloane | 5/8/1967 | See Source »

Any resemblance between Larry Mahan, 23, and the bowlegged characters who worked the oldtime rodeo circuit is purely coincidental. Mahan does not even know how to roll his own cigarettes. In fact, he does not smoke, or drink hard liquor. He shaves every morning, says "Sir" and "Ma'am...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rodeo: The Grey Flannel Cowboy | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

He was short, not overly bright, and bowlegged from years of polo. Yet Porfirio Rubirosa parlayed his genius for making women forget all that into 30 years of grand spree on the international circuit, a private fortune, a worldwide reputation as the last of the Casanovas, and lawful unions with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International Set: Toujours Pret | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

"Welcome," he opened, "to 'Jack Paar and His Friends.' " It was virtually the only abrasive brush of the hour. "Some people," he cautioned, "expect a tearful farewell. Others expect I will take a few swings." But Jack held back both tears and hostilities. His "easy way out" was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Paar's Last Tape | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

On the Poster. In the men's singles, the last surviving non-Chinese, Germany's Eberhard Schöler, was eliminated in the semifinals. The finalists: bowlegged, two-time Champion Chuang Tse-tung, 23, a student at Peking's University of Physical Culture (one of few schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table Tennis: A Game of War | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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