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Then there are the Bantams, billed as "three pre-teens with a rocking sound three times their size." They look like Mickey Rooney windup dolls. They twist and shout, stomp their size-four black boots, shake their neck-length flaxen hair and shout, "I got lips that long to kiss you." The freckle-faced Bantams-Mike Kirchner, 12, and his brothers Jeff, 10, and Fritz, 9-honed their gritty style singing for coins on the beach at Venice, Calif., recently landed a recording and five-picture contract with Warner Bros. They are already TV veterans, are now shooting their first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: The Nubes | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...income from racing this year will top $230,000, and Edington Mains is busily in the black too, producing barley for Scotch-whisky distillers, sheep for wool, and cattle for slaughter. He has his Scottish sheep dog, Sweep, who pines for him while he is away-and his flaxen-haired girl friend, Sally Stokes, who travels with him and tends a stop watch in the pits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Hero with a Hot Shoe | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

Happiness--pure, simple joy--seldom rears its flaxen head in the Quincy House dining hall. But last Friday night, after all those sky-blue trays had been carefully tucked away, the tortured drone of discussions of international trade policy gave way to the sweetness and excitement of a first-rate jazz concert...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Quincy-Holmes Jazz Concert | 3/16/1964 | See Source »

...Every Elbow. If the Russians were in evidence before, their presence overwhelms today. Awaiting take-off of their TU-114 at José Marti Airport in Havana, 50 flaxen-haired Soviet technicians clutch cardboard boxes of rum still stenciled with the anachronistic legend: "Let's go to Cuba, the inviting island next door." Soviet-piloted MIG-21s scorch over the countryside near the airbase at San Antonio de los Baños; Soviet freighters dot Havana harbor, new arrivals unloading daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Study in Grey | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

Born. To Katharine, Duchess of Kent, 29, flaxen-haired descendant of Regicide Oliver Cromwell, and Prince Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 6, 1962 | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

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