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...world's continuing strife might make him seem. "That Pablo Casals!" one Fascist general remarked. "I will tell you what I will do to him if I catch him. I will put an end to his agitation. I will cut off his arms--both of them--at the elbow!" And Casals indicated in 1970 how the Loyalist leaders regarded...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Homage to Pablo Casals | 11/1/1973 | See Source »

...most widely recognized hazard to participants in the country's fastest-growing sport is epicondylitis, or tennis elbow (TIME, May 14). Now a New York City physician has identified still another threat to tennis players. Writing in the Archives of Dermatology, Dr. Richard C. Gibbs reports that he has been treating an increasing number of players with "tennis toes." The condition is characterized by the discoloration of toenails-usually on the longest toes-which turn bluish-violet. Sometimes they even come off. It is caused, Gibbs says, by hemorrhaging that occurs beneath the toenail when the player stops abruptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Aug. 13, 1973 | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

...life on the line. Mondo's (in Haymarket Square in Boston) is well worth the trip if you have got a car. Clientele ranges from truck drivers to spiritual descendants of Oscar Wilde, denizens of the North End dressed in sunglasses. Fedoras, dark shirts and wide white ties sit elbow to elbow with shoulder length longhairs in tie died muscle shirts and jeans with plastic bags tucked in the pockets. Everybody loves the ham and eggs and the lurid murals...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Everything Happens in the Square | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...caressing of a staff, the tossing about of a large rubber phallus, the snagging of a staff in a codpiece, the goosing of a tart with a loaf of bread, and the kneeing of an officer in the groin by a brothel-keeper. Ronald Frazier is amusing enough as Elbow, the malapropistic constable (a type better managed in the Dogberry of Much Ado About Nothing); and so is the clowning tapster Pompey of Rex Everhart, who has been doing such roles for the AST off and on since its first season. Gene Nye turns the disreputable Froth into a stuttering...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Philip Kerr Excels in 'Measure for Measure' | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...Celtics in 1959, few people would have given him much of a chance of sticking with the NBA champions, let alone stringing together an outstanding 13-year career. Sanders was a gangling, bespectacled kid who refused to go on the floor unless he was wearing both knee and elbow pads. Nobody saw too much in the skinny kid from...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Satch: The Celtics Iron Man May Stay for a Long While | 5/15/1973 | See Source »

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