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...Presidents (Carter, Bush, Clinton and Bush) in part because, as President, he paid uncommon attention and courtesy to the four living Presidents who preceded him in office. Bush already enjoys a good relationship with Clinton. If Bush is not the most active former President, he is certainly the gamest: he jumped out of an airplane to mark his 85th birthday last summer, as he said recently, "to remind people that getting older doesn't mean you have to slow down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Obama Meets Bush 41: A Bipartisan Boost? | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...Filion's alltime favorites was a horse called Rabbit, an equine outpatient that, as one railbird recalls, had "four lame legs and so many bone chips he sounded like a crap game." Filion, who won 17 races with him in '68, says fondly: "He was the gamest horse I ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Iron Man | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

When Joe comes home from a business trip to find his wife and his best friend in bed together, he meets the challenge to his honor by playing around a bit himself. The gamest girl he knows is a man-eating blonde TV commentator (Honor Blackman) who lives by a rule that might well raise obstacles for Joe: "Only one thing I ask from you-be honest." Joe follows his mistress to Lon don to earn success on his own merit, but every thread of his being leads straight back home to Brown & Hether-sett's woolens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up in the Depths | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

...takes plenty of heart as well as guts, and the MEDEVAC teams are known throughout South Viet Nam as "the gamest bastards of all." Their deep-chested, $250,000 "Huey" choppers (capacity: ten patients each) have evacuated 8,864 wounded troopers-, Vietnamese and American-since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Gamest Bastards of All | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...music and lyrics by George Kleinsinger & Joe Darion) celebrates Don Marquis' reasonably immortal archy and mehitabel. Supreme among literary cockroaches is the archy who typewrote free-verse memos to his newspaper-columnist "boss" by hurling himself head-downwards on the keys (though he could never manage capital letters). Gamest and gamiest of cats is the mehitabel that archy reported on, who insists that she was once Cleopatra and though bedraggled and back-alleyish now, is always a lady and toujours gai. The two friends are an easy pair to feel tender toward, but much less easy to endow with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Apr. 22, 1957 | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

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