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...also suffers from high blood pressure, diabetes and prostate cancer. ?I don?t have health problems, I have health issues,? he snaps. And he?s also tired of talking about his past. ?You hardly hear anything about Bill Clinton or Robert Downey, Jr. There's racism in the downfallen community,? the ex-mayor says. ?If you?re white, people forget about it in a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marion Barry's Third Act | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

...Tape. Peter was so "downfallen, so sick in the stomach that I never left my house." His Liverpool fans, feeling equally ill, loyally marched along the Mersey, carrying banners proclaiming "Peter Forever, Ringo Never." Even with a bodyguard, Beatle George Harrison got his eye blackened. It was three weeks before Best felt up to leaving the house, but, unlike his fans, he bore no personal rancor. "I saw John and George in Liverpool a couple of minutes," he notes. "We're still the best of friends. I asked them, 'How's your mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Best of the Beatles | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...Pool. By custom, the search for a new Premier to replace the downfallen Joseph Laniel began with the man who had been most vigorous in opposition. That took President Coty straight to Mendès-France, a confident, energetic lawyer and economist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Man of Change | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...with the bankers at the exclusive Chicago Club. They did not dare meet elsewhere for fear the dreadful news would leak out. At that meeting a receivership was agreed upon. Samuel Insull, Charles A. McCulloch and Edward N. Hurley (now deceased) were to become the three receivers of the downfallen domain. Less than a month later Mr. McCulloch went to Samuel Insull and told him that his brother Martin would have to give up his job as president of Middle West Utilities; there was evidence that Martin had used the company's money to bolster up a private brokerage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Old Man Comes Home | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

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