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...Miriam Paar, Jack's pretty and patient wife, appears at poolside with a dinner tray-brook trout, corn on the cob, string beans, mixed green salad. Jack tops it off with a chocolate sundae garnished with whipped cream and peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Late-Night Affair | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...17th century a Spanish priest, Father Cob,. made an acute observation about the Indians of the high Andes. "The Indians," he wrote, "are red-blooded to an extreme degree, from whence they derive their excessive heat, as borne out by the fact that if in the time of greatest cold one touches their hand, one will always find heat in it, amazingly." In Natural History, Anthropologist Marschall T. Newman explains the physiological reasons for the Indians' "excessive heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Circulation for Altitude | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

KURT GINGOLD Cos Cob, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...week to catch his slick Texas slang and catgut twang. Since April Dean has charmed early risers away from Dave Garroway's Today with his easy ways, his oleaginous grin, and a no-ulcer format thickly populated with bosomy fiddlers. Although his corn is off an aged cob ("Haven't had so much fun since the old cow had twins"), Dean is, in the words of an associate, "photogenic, amiable, happy-go-lucky and a nipple feeder-that is, he knows little outside his music." Says his manager, Connie B. Gay, who is the chief impresario of country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Good Country Boy | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...forgot one small detail-that the Joshua Liebman opus, Peace of Mind, was the grandpappy of them all. Any corny tendencies of the books you named were to be found in embryo on that old cob. Also, why not direct your diatribes at the voracious public appetite for junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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