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...tell on himself. To a wide-eyed luncheon audience of constituents Macmillan confessed: "I have been in love all my life with a great number of ladies." When the silverware finished clattering, he went on: "I remember my first occasion . . . She had blue eyes and curling, flaxen hair, and we danced to the tune Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer, Do! . . . She faded from my life when I went to school. I met her somewhere a few years afterward, but the illusion had passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 21, 1960 | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...happens, they have chosen the wrong man for the wrong job. Slight, timorous and flaxen-haired, young Nikolai has goaded himself to an inner state just this side of madness. But when the moment comes, he has neither courage nor hatred enough for his mission. What happens is a tragicomedy of errors-conspirators' notes gone astray, the bomb lost, crashing non sequiturs to a near surrealist plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time Bomb | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...Flaxen maned and creamy-complexioned, 19 gorgeous girls flocked to the Crime for one hour last night. No fools they, to a one in a chorus chanted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIME Time Certainly (!) Say They, 19 Join Joyously in New Competition | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

...flame red Ferrari, Racing Driver Mike Hawthorn, 29, was all that hero-hungry Britons could ask for. His big body hunched in cramped cockpits, his face set in a ferocious scowl, their Mike was a throwback to Battle of Britain fighter pilots -a carefree daredevil with unruly flaxen hair and polka-dot bowtie. In eight lusty years, lead-footed Mike punished cars, survived six serious accidents -and last October became the first world champion in British racing history. Two months later moody Mike abruptly retired from racing, said: "I can't properly explain all the reasons, even to myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Road from Farnham | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Last month flaxen-haired Mike Hawthorn, 29, became the first Briton to win the world's driving championship (by a single point over Britain's Stirling Moss). Last week Hawthorn announced he was retiring. Saddened by the racing deaths this year of Ferrari teammates Peter Collins and Luigi Musso, Hawthorn decided to devote his energies to his garage in Surrey. Said the champion: "I can't properly explain all the reasons, even to myself, except that it's better to get out when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lance's Legacy | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

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