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...mountain climber, and a facile writer of both fiction and philosophy. He could talk intelligently on almost any subject. When he died of a heart attack in Stockholm last week, his colleagues the world over testified to a special sense of loss. For Wiener was one of a vanishing crew-a first-rate scientist whose curiosity and skills covered a variety of disciplines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mathematics: The Prodigy Who Grew Up | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

Shot from a Box. The paparazzi are a small crew-a couple of dozen at most -and they are more bullyboys than news photographers. They lounge beneath lampposts, lips leaking cigarettes, cameras drawn like automatics. "Come see lo facio secco [When he comes out, I'll drill him]," they snarl, while waiting for their quarry to open a nightclub door. Then the paparazzi attack. These days they find more and more targets. Easter is past, celebrities are drifting down the peninsula, and hot times are ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Paparazzi on the Prowl | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

Sugar Ray came down to his lakeside training camp trailing a drab crew-a couple of beefy sparring partners and a brace of trainers, all solemn and eager to pound the champ into proper shape for next week's bout with Challenger Carmen Basilio. Only the boss himself seemed to be a hangover from the high old times when he traveled with a clowning dwarf, a personal barber, his private golf pro and the one man a boxer needs least of all: a bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Roar of the Crowd | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...Junior Crew-A. M. Kales (stroke), F. M. Forbes, J. S. Stillman, G. S. Derby, C. Brewer, J. C. Fairchild, B. Frothingham, S. V. Mann (bow), E. B. Day (coxswain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/14/1897 | See Source »

...Holworthy Club Crew-A. P. Loring (stroke), N. H. Harriman, A. W. Hooper, L. F. Woodward, J. R. W. Hitchcock, M. Bull (bow), C. C. Foster (coxswain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BEACON CUP. | 5/14/1897 | See Source »

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