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Gatto has established a new freshman scoring record, 42 points, in leading the Yardling to a 3-1-1 record. The gnomish halfback has scored on a 95-yard kickoff return and several open field dashes from scrimmage. He has also been effective as a power runner, pass receiver, and tenacious defensive corner back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Underdog Freshmen to Challenge Strongest Yale Eleven in Years | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...Heroes. There are many Vietnamese heroes of the long war. One of the most bemedaled is Lieut. Colonel Nguyen Thanh Yen, 42, of the Vietnamese marines, who has spent 15 years fighting the Communists. A bitter, brown gnomish man called the "Little Tiger," Yen last week, as he always does, was walking every step of the way with his 1,400-man Vietnamese task force in Operation Concord. Beside him was his adviser, U.S. Marine Major William Leftwich, 34, whom one of his superiors has called "the best American adviser in the country." They set out early in the dazzling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A New Kind of War | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...death-defying feats with never a hair misplaced nor a dirty fingernail. From time to time his teeth literally sparkle. Jack Lemmon, reading his lines at a steady 130 decibels, is the spoof villain. As black-clad Professor Fate, equipped with a stovepipe hat, a moustache to twirl and gnomish assistant (Peter Falk), he is forever launching devilish devices against Leslie and forever being Foiled Again. Natalie Wood is a pert, cigar-puffing suffragette who goes along as girl reporter on the great automobile race from New York tp Paris, via Siberia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sock & Row | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

Lancaster, a gnomish dandy who looks at the world across one of the most magnificent pair of mustachios still in private hands, sees the history of Drayneflete as a steady upward climb until it reaches the 18th Century. From then on, esthetic disaster follows esthetic disaster until the stage is set for the final horror: the Drayneflete of Tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: This Other Eden | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Friendly, 59-year-old Scottie, with a nose as bulbous as one of his own gnomish ink faces, had been scratching pictures to amuse himself ever since he was a boy in the slums of Glasgow. After he moved to Canada 19 years ago to run a secondhand furniture shop, he found that he could attract customers by drawing in the window. One day Scottie's drawing attracted Bookbinder Douglas Duncan, who bought his pictures, helped arrange a one-man show in Toronto. By 1946 Scottie had moved on to London, become a hero to Horizon. Critics hailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Scottie's World | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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