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...Another pronounciation may do just as well; Harry Smith of "Biography" says it "Gei-zell." Anyway, we're all here to resound and rejoice for the man whose original name sounds like "Soyce." So let me without further ado introduce the man whom ten million kids treasure as Seuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Seuss on First | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

...rich, he's mighty--small wonder that J.R., the industrial- strength lord of Dallas, is both a universal figure and a universal symbol of America. So it is that in Britain, Larry Hagman often has to sport a fake mustache. On one trip to Italy, the man who plays "Gei Ar" ducked into his Milan hotel room for some peace and quiet, only to find it crowded with Hagmanic paparazzi who had crawled in through the window. "I can only stay for a day in one place," he explains. "People come up to me everywhere and say, 'I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrities Who Travel Well | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...minesite, everything had to be carried by hand. Twice the entrance to the mine caved in; both times it took Schwartzwalder two months to clear an opening again. At last, in July 1953, Fred struck a vein of uranium, 70 ft. into the side of the mountain. "The Gei ger counter went right up," he remembers. "I knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: The Front-Range Pessimist | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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