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...Came to N.H. when I was three, learned to ski," wrote the 1960 Winter Olympics top-ranking U.S. woman skier on one of those biographical questionnaires. And she still thinks that a tender age is the right time to learn. So at Gilford, N.H., where she now runs a ski school, it was Penny Pitou and her son, too, out in the snow for his first lesson. And with proud Mom, 25, grinning from muffed ear to muffed ear, Christian, 2, struck a pose that proved he was to the manner born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 3, 1964 | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a good clean dirty show. It stands for something. It is pro mammal. It is pro burlesque. It is pro the golden corn of vaudeville, flawlessly husked by Zero Mostel, David Burns, Jack Gilford and John Carradine. What Forum brings back to Broadway is good for high, low, middle, and knitted brows-the belly laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bawdy Beautiful | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

Slogging toward the front during the third battle of Ypres in 1916, Gilford Dudley Seymour was, as he remembers it, the "youngest, tallest and scaredest" soldier in the Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles. But 17-year-old Private Seymour clung to duty, and duty was delivering his company's rum tot in two glazed-crockery jugs. The officer who was supposed to get the rum turned out to be dead, so Seymour buried the crocks where a hedge crossed a trench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Rum Doings | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

King Sextimus (Jack Gilford) is a Harpo Marxist mute with whom no 15th century lady in waiting is more than half safe. Queen Agravaine (Jane White) is a jawing virago for whom possession is nine-tenths of motherhood's law. It begins to look as if their son, poor fretful Prince Dauntless (Joe Bova), will always be mama's boy. And then one day Princess Winnifred (Carol Burnett) swims the moat. Winnifred ("My friends call me 'Fred' ") rescues Dauntless from his possessive mother, but only after Fred's friends have built up the queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical Off Broadway, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...Gervais, France, Penny Pitou of Gilford, N.H., competing against some of Europe's leading women skiers, scored an eighth in the slalom, then barreled down the 1.6-mile slope through a thick fog to win the downhill race in 2 min. 6.34 sec. -two full seconds faster than her nearest rival, and enough to give her first place in the overall combined scoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fast Americans | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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