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However, we found descendants of Sir Walter Scott, Sir Francis Drake, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and cousins of Greta Garbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1977 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...will be flying to California to report on Super Bowl XI, and the same lady-with whom he also saw Super Bowls IX and X-will join him for the game. But they will be hurrying back to New York City; the following Saturday afternoon, Jay Rosenstein and Tanya Drake will be married. The design on their wedding cake? A football field, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 10, 1977 | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...storm that destroyed a vacationland sent 40,000 cu. ft. per sec. through the gap at an incredible depth of 30 ft.-some 320,000 gal. per sec. In the hamlet of Glen Haven, 80% of the buildings were seriously damaged or destroyed. Most of Drake's 200 residents are still missing, and the village remains cut off. From Drake east to the mouth of the canyon, nearly everything has disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Now, There's Nothing There | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

This, in the golden age of the Virgin Queen, Raleigh, Drake and Shake speare? Of course, Rowse answers. "Living on the borders of a mental world expanding into the unknown, they did not know what might not be possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horatio Faustus | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...dying Bette Davis in Dark Victory (1939), suitor to Shirley Temple in That Hagan Girl (1947) and a scientist who played second banana to a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo (1951). Two roles won him acclaim: George Gipp, the doomed halfback of Knute Rockne, All American (1940), and Drake McHugh, the playboy whose legs are amputated needlessly by a sadistic doctor in King's Row (1941). As McHugh wakes from anesthesia, he speaks the line that became the title of Reagan's 1965 autobiography, Where's the Rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: THE STAR SHAKES UP THE PARTY | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

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