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...days. Singing is harder to do now." His friends are not convinced. "Bobby has the image of himself as being worn out," scoffs Radio Producer Jean Bach. "It isn't true." And Short himself seems uncertain. "A friend of mine told me that I'm a constant fountain of youth for people who come to the Carlyle," he says. "They come year after year, season after season, and it's a going-back for them, a way to relive special times of their lives. And I suppose that enabling them to do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Saga of a Saloon Singer | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...Thoughtfully, Philip Morris has installed a parquet wood floor, "easy on they eyes and easy on the feet," as the brochure puts it. And to aid the workers further, the management installed "floor to ceiling, glare-resistant" windows that look out on gardens, foliage, lawns, reflecting pools and a fountain...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Come to Where the Flavor Is... | 4/16/1981 | See Source »

...About $21,000 is needed to repair the chipped and cracked masonry. It will take $22,000 more to engrave the names of the black soldiers who died-only the white officers are now named. There are various other items, including $15,000 to restore the memorial's fountain and $50,000 for a permanent endowment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Boston: Aid and Comfort for the Shaw | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...this "most illustrious" school. J.T. Wheelwright '76 (1876) wrote in an essay about the Pudding Show that the returning alumnus "finds himself a stranger where once he was most at home. But if he revisits the College to witness a Pudding Play he is at once immersed in the fountain of youth. He is another Ponce de Leon." Ponce, you may recall, only thought he found his goal...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

...Swan Lake last May, she had a hip injury, but danced "full out" the whole time. Says a friend: "She covered the pain for two hours every afternoon. It was sheer determination." Says Irina Kosmovska, who began teaching Darci in California when she was eleven: "Darci was a fountain of energy. She tried everything. She was one of my most intense students-she would commit suicide on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: A New Sunbeam, Traveling Fast | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

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